Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capacity crowd in Tanglewood's Music Shed listened to an abbreviated two-hour performance of the Mass and awarded the conductor a standing ovation at its conclusion. The performance was a repeat of one given last March in Boston's Symphony Hall...
With quiet force, the authors repeat familiar indictments: "We must recognize that in many areas our educational facilities are poor and our educational effort slovenly. Our schools are overcrowded, understaffed and ill-equipped." Some statistics: by 1969 there will be 50% to 70% more high-school students than present schools can accommodate; by 1975 college enrollments will be doubled or tripled. The need for teachers is enormous; yet industries and Government outbid the universities for graduates who might become college teachers. And all too often programs to train precollege teachers are so "rigid, formalistic and shallow" that they "drive away...
President Eisenhower likes to scoff at last fall's uproar over Sputnik as the "Sputnik attitude"-a period of frenzy that the U.S. would do well not to repeat. But Texas Democrat George H. Mahon, hard-working chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, warned his colleagues last week that the Sputnik attitude has vanished too fast for the nation's good...
...mean that the school feels an increased need to push all students ahead in the sciences. One math teacher observes that only the most mature as well as bright students will be able to take the most advanced math course. "The rest," he says, "need the old pound and repeat." And science courses are only required for the youngest two classes...
...student's idea of time as something on a wristwatch is shaken when the teacher forces him to examine what he actually means by a "year." He begins to think how the ancients measured, with only rough instruments, the recurrence of the solstice, and how they had to repeat this many times to average and fix the duration of the year. By December the students are able to measure the solstice within a few days, and they understand their instruments well enough to know why they cannot figure it exactly...