Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intensive courses in modern languages. Classes met eight hours per week in new atmosphere--English was not spoken in the room. Mechanical devices and "native informants" (graduate students from foreign countries) helped perfect pronunciation. By 1950, the program had proven so successful that Cornell adopted it outright. Columbia soon followed, and rapidly developed a comparable program which gave it, along with Cornell, the finest elementary language courses of colleges in the nation...
Stein has been more concerned with a reorganization of elementary German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method...
...other League action, Dartmouth is highly favored to take its third straight with a win over Columbia in New York City. The Big Green is expected to finish strong enough to salvage an otherwise disappointing year. Cornell plays host to the Brown Bruins, who may or may not have enough strength to take...
...matter of hours, Columbia University accepted Van Doren's resignation, as an assistant professor in English, effective immediately...
...lives there in semiseclusion. At 83, Berlin-born Conductor Bruno Walter had achieved one of the triumphs of a memorable career: his second complete recording of the nine Beethoven symphonies. At various times, mostly in the 1940s and '50s, Walter had made other recordings of the nine. But Columbia decided on a repeat performance with latest recording techniques, including stereo. The job was done with a specially hired orchestra of Los Angeles musicians in a hall not far from Bruno Walter's home. There, day after day over a span of six months...