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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while we made so little progress that we were forced to open a small date bureau, never dreaming in the world that the idea would ever take hold, but about the second night we fixed up nearly half of the Business School with dates for their Columbus Day dance," she boasted. Miss Slote was very careful to affirm that the date bureau would be abandoned as soon as the 'Group' made some noticeable impression on Harvard boys, and that it was not an end in itself but merely the means...
...name as many associate professors as its teaching needs dictate--exercising supervision to the extent of imposing a total budgetary limit. This would ensure that every department had enough "middle men" to efficiently staff its courses. It would also mean, of course, that some of the associate professors could never be advanced, but this presents no formidable problem if it is realized that associate professors here have larger salaries and greater academic prestige than full professors in most other colleges...
...difficult to define precisely the unique excellence of this book. It is primarily a collection of brief essays about the plays and poems, essays which never exceed fifteen pages in length. Mr. Van Doren deliberately excludes considerations of Shakespeare biography, Elizabethan drama and the like; the center of his preoccupation is always the peculiar interest of each play...
...vital strength of the music of the people gave composers the solid foundations on which to build the great tonal structures of classical music. The influx of popular musical ideas has never stopped.. The countless other adaptations of the dance by all composers continually emphasize the persistent influence of dance rhythms and forms. The last century has seen an unprecedented exploitation of folk-song in the music of Tchaikowsky and the rest of the Russians as well as of the composers of most of the other European nations...
...other hand, the Committee of Eight envisaged a considerable expansion in the ranks of associate professors. While there was no mention of the matter, this suggestion carried with it the inescapable implicit assumption that many of the increased number of associate professors could never be advanced--that they would have to be appointed without predictable vacancies ahead of them. In view of this, President Conant could easily have appointed the men in question to permanent positions, after having made a few simple salary adjustments. The Committee, in recommending no hasty action, may well have intended this...