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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More conservative and immediately accessible are John Austin's Four Modal Canons. Scored for two violins and viola, they follow the old principle of the "round": one viola leads off and the others enter later playing exactly the same notes. The limitations are obvious; all variety must proceed from harmonies produced by the passage of voices and from little imitative figures as each enters. Austin's first canon produces lovely sonorities and a mood of serenity that help sustain its length. In the second, however, parts too closely spaced give the effect of tedious repetition. Although the others are better...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Harvard Composers | 3/26/1954 | See Source »

...emphasis on the superior student. American education has long been criticized for deliberately coddling the average student while his brighter or more experienced fellow marks time repeating work previously done. The new advanced placement system should end much of this repetition. A student will be able to proceed as rapidly as he is able, omitting any elementary course which examinations show to be beneath his abilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The System and The Student | 3/3/1954 | See Source »

...repeatedly faced with the demand that I acknowledge these imaginary happenings, and, as she put it, 'purge my soul.' She stated that if I once did this, she would forever cease these demands and begin our marital life anew. If I did not, she would proceed with a divorce, naming all individuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Letters | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Apley last night captured the first round championship of the Freshman Intramural Basketball league when it defeated Stoughton, 44-37, at the I.A.B. The play off proceed the varsity's 73-65 victory over Brandeis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apley Wins First Round Title; Patton Scores 17 in 44-37 Win | 1/15/1954 | See Source »

...number of formal courses, not only in such technical subjects as bibliography and textual criticism, but also in the authors and periods of their specialization. The dangers of premature specialization, resulting from the compulsory Ph.D. for everyone going into the academic profession, are increasingly recognized . . . Nevertheless . . . too many students proceed to their Ph.D. without having acquired a rich enough general education in their subject . . . The view that a man can be a great scholar, critic, and teacher without having produced a Ph.D. thesis has often been urged of recent years in America, but ... it has had little or no effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Baffling for Britons | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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