Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bull's-Eye Pitch. The simile is apt. As 'they launch with bull's-eye pitch and sure-fire sense of attack into one of their jazz-flavored re-arrangements (You Took Advantage of Me, Stormy Weather), the Hi-Lo's suggest the Budapest String Quartet gone mad. But this quartet is not tied to strings, generally achieves its best effects with vocal approximations of all kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar...
...requirements did not end with General Education. There were others, sometimes more incredible than amusing, with which the University and the departments attempted to define a liberal education and suggest what sort of person Rumplestiltskin ought to become...
...Grades suggest first that the ideas and facts presented are not in themselves interesting, and second that what is worth knowing about a given subject has definite, readily attained limits. The A symbolizes them, and sets a limit of its own on effort in a course...
They do not measure the most important parts of a course, and they suggest that each item on a reading list or each lecture in a course deserves equal attention...
Dean Elder does not regard the problem as this critical although he conceded that it is a real one. While courses suggest a quantity concept of knowledge, he admits, Harvard's approach does no generally do this to a significant degree. "In fact," he says, "because Harvard's education is so good, Harvard must lead the way. If by his senior year in college a man is not ready to think on his own, there is not too much likelihood that another year of courses will lead him to do so."J. PETERSEN ELDER...