Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with hat and briefcase in hand who walks onto the raised lecture platform two or three times a week, talks for an hour, and then, picking up his hat and stuffing his papers back in the briefcase, disappears again until the next meeting of the class is uncommonly different from the man in shirt tails who walks to and from class with his students, studies with them, eats with them, and fences with them occasionally on the front lawn...
...stabilize the present program. Size, again, is perhaps his main problem. He has had direct experience with it in trying to direct Bard's Glee Club. Describing his students as "individuals over-fascinated with their own idiosyncrasies," Case outlined the need for bringing a large group of "normal" students onto the campus to give it stability...
...Church which founded it and from Columbia University which took it over--for only one decade. There are today more signs of decadence than of renaissance.Bard's seminars are informal, intimate discussions in which the student participates on the same level as the professor. In spring they move outside onto the spacious lawns overlooking the Hudson...
...only the spots in which he unfortunately choose to accentuate the play's pointless violence. Certainly the pace did not slacken at any point under Mr. Gitter's hand. For only brief moments, during which Mr. Gregory and Mr. Aaron decided that communism is basically evil, did boredom creep onto the stage...
...must learn to do everything the American way if they can work out a good method of their own. "The fact is," says one M-K executive, "there's a lot we can learn from them." By patient explanation and endless demonstration, tribesmen are coaxed off camels and onto roaring cats, and ancient peoples are taught a thousand undreamed of modern skills...