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...implying that it is undesirable to transmit information from lecturer to student. Presumably, the instructor has something significant to say-and if he doesn't, that is no fault of the system. Nor do I mean to suggest that personal contact between teacher and student is undesirable--indeed, I believe the more such contact, the better. But the combination of personal contact and transmission of information, in a oral lecture, frustrates the best purposes of both. The oral lecture is neither the best way to transmit information, nor the best way to use teacher-student contact...
When utilities started building right on the coal fields-because it was cheaper to transmit electricity than to ship coal-and when the coal industry itself began to talk of laying coal pipelines* to cut transporting costs, the railroads got busy improving their service. They modernized their equipment, studied the needs of the coal industry, began running fast, "unitized" freights of coal straight from mine to market, thus cutting much of the yard operations and interchanges that account for one-third the cost of all freight-car movements on eastern railroads. The eastern carriers only a month ago passed...
...more); he loves the idea of being in love with her. A man in despair who totally abandons himself to this love is ludicrous and pitiful, but also very human. Steve Myers, by making Albert affected and almost effeminate, brings out only the ludicrous in Albert. He fails to transmit the horror and tragedy of the character, and thus does not create a person who is interesting-or worth learning about...
...excited counterrhythms and violent colors, fluttering like a bird caught in a storm. "Between conductor and orchestra," Szell says, "a great deal must occur below the conscious level. There must be an understanding that is mystical and even occult. The freshness of the eyes, the mood-each movement must transmit itself to the players as an unmistakable musical signal...
...studies abroad cover the whole gamut of diseases and the agents that transmit them to man. At Osaka University Dr. Hideo Kikkawa has painstakingly bred 30 different mutant strains of houseflies to find out how some of them become resistant to insecticides. By a statistical quirk, Norway turns out to be the best place to compare the effects of different psychiatric treatments, including tranquilizers. The Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean...