Word: recitatione
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To tell this somber-hued tale, Composer Poulenc abandoned surrealist shiftiness and the brassy pyrotechnics which once made him the rage of the Left Bank. The new work proved to be in the 19th century operatic tradition-full of flowing melody, dramatic action, swift scenic shifts from the quiet cloistered...
On the curriculum, however, President Quincy's influence was not good. The recitation system, which had gradually broken down, was hardened by the adoption of a horrible "Scale of Merit." Quincy required a daily mark on recitations for his rank list, thus reducing the faculty from a teaching body to...
In 1847 the Lawrence Scientific School was opened with an initial donation of $50,000. Perhaps an even more important change, however, was the introduction of written final examinations instead or orals. From this point it was easy to procure the more important reform of allowing instructors to substitute personal...
But, especially, he hungers for his native land, so much so that he can devote pages to assuaging "the whole intolerable memory of exile and nostalgia" by a recitation of American names: the States, the Indian tribes, the railways, the rivers and mountains and towns.
Throughout, the subcommittee called on no top school administrators to defend integration, asked none of the testifying teachers to suggest improvements. If the hearings demonstrated anything in their dreary recitation of well-known facts, it was simply that Negroes have suffered educationally and culturally in comparison with whites, and that...