Word: neglectment
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This winter Spalding & Gabrilowitsch have twice chosen to combine their talents, to play sonatas for the piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely...
These are my honest opinions. I have indicated above my limitations as to the tutorial system. Harvard expects a great deal of its professors and I feel that you should sympathize with us if sometime we neglect some phases...
...class V and VI students are generally so incompetent or so busy with other things that for them tutorial work is an imposition. If they neglect the reading, one can only amuse them for the period or review the reading for them. Both of these are useless procedures, wasting my time and theirs, so I ask them to either review their work or do their reading and return to see me. Exchanging mere opinions is more or less a waste of time...
...through well organized curricula and efficient and far sighted administrations, but without healthy bodies as complements to the human picture--then, all education is futile. These United States succeeded only too well during the rouge era to spread the gospel of profit for the institution at the expense and neglect of 90 per cent of the individuals who make up the institution...
...difficulty with the tutorial system is twofold; first as regards the tutees and, second, as regards the tutors. The average Sophomore thinks the tutorial work is unimportant because no grades are given in it. If he has to neglect something. It will be tutorial work. It is easier to bluff in that than in anything else, and he is inclined to view it as a lot of extra work that does not help much. As divisionals get closer the interest in the tutorial work increases, but a lot of time has been thrown away. On the other hand, the tutors...