Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present Natural Sciences program does not seem the best way to endow the student with this basic knowledge. The non-science concentrator must be introduced into the process of hypothesis and experiment and must realize that the claims of science are limited: that measurement is always inexact; that the constructs it offers are not images of "reality" but working models for prediction; that statements are true until controverted by further sense data. The best way to appreciate this is not to learn about science but to learn science itself...
...half of a 3-by-5 card, nine Green Stamps, last week's New Yorker, and a hairpin. "I have discovered a new vicious cycle, a perfect closed circle of degeneration. About three glasses after I had become fully convinced of the nutritive powers of gin and tonic--a process that in itself took quite a little while--I suddenly found a cosmic abyss open beneath my feet. I had this very, very full glass, see, and I was afraid, see, that I'd spill...
...bedspread." Back in the U.S. in the '30s, he wrote film scores (for Ben Hecht, Cecil B. DeMille), abruptly stopped writing music altogether, later explained: "I felt that I was wrong or the world was wrong, and I decided to find out." The process of discovery was oblique. Widely able, he wrote articles for Esquire on endocrinology, a daily advice-to-the-lovelorn column for the Chicago Sun Syndicate, a book in 1940 on international strategy (The Shape of the War to Come). With a conviction that modern music was "intellectualized" and "quibbling," he returned to composition with fresh...
...some educators these are frightening words. Traditionally, the freshman gets his basic training in a battery of survey courses: he is whisked through the centuries, fed a few Great Ideas, forced to memorize a multitude of facts. This peculiar ritual ends with a process of mental regurgitation, commonly known as "the final." No matter what name it hides under, the survey course is supposed to provide a rock-like foundation for greater things...
...fact that the student seminars will be composed of men and women working together should be helpful: though one can generalize too far, providing that a style of life has been established which respects the process of sharing intellectual experience, the two sexes bring out the best in each other intellectually...