Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reconcile with the radical middle-aged Schonberg. He wrote his last solo for a speaker, gave him specific notes to hit as he recited about the peaceful things in nature. Philadelphians instantly recognized this so-called sprechstimme as the device which Composer Alban Berg, a Schoönberg pupil, used with the same wailing effect in Wozzeck (TIME, March 16, 1931). Piccolos had a prominent part in this last orchestration, done ten years after the first. The strings had difficult chromatics to flurry through. But it never got noisy or jarring, never lost sight of Tove's tender love...
...lady-pupil demonstrated the dance floor, gingerly moved her arms and head to "play" the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. Theremin's pupils performed individually, on space-controlled instruments which have a tone-quality something like a cello's, and on keyboard instruments which are in principle the same but sound more like woodwinds. Finally the pupils performed altogether, sounded not unlike a group of children, a little uncertain as to pitch, blowing on combs and tissue paper...
...required standing, Miss West sought to restrain Miami University from expelling her. Her counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed the decision last December. Reason: a pupil who falls below a set standard must not be allowed to retard his fellows...
...course in practical psychology and three or four expert psychoanalyists would be more useful and helpful to the undergraduate body of our colleges than all the subjects in the curriculum and the entire faculty," Gertrude Steele Chambers, most prominent woman psychologist in the country, and pupil of both Freud and Jung, declared in an interview yesterday...
...talks that will be given are: "Geting Mechanics Covered," Mr. W. S. Hinchman '01, Milton Academy; "Homogeneous Grouping and Honors Courses," Mr. D. A. Shepardson, The Choate School; "Training the New Recruits," Miss H. L. Harris, Gloucester High School; "Transferring the Misfit Pupil in English," Mr. W. L. Carney, Melrose High School; "Reorganizing the English Curriculum under the Harkness Foundation," Mr. F. W. Cuchwa, Phillips Exeter Academy; "The Problem of the Staff Meeting," Miss S. F. Dawes, Quincy High School; "Improving Working Conditions for the Teacher of English," Miss A. P. Butler, Cambridge High and Latin School; "Correcting Reading Tastes...