Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty's position has always been that there was no way that abridgement of study time could be avoided if parietal hours were extended. The best the committee could do was to suggest "Though many may consider Friday night a work night, are not the hours of 4-7 p.m. work hours also?" This was all the attention devoted to the subject which seems of most concern to the Faculty...
...where their energy and exuberance made an especially happy effect; the Andante seemed a bit pallid. But in the Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted to an expanded chamber group...
Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk...
Aside from well-written and amusing scenes. The Baron in the Trees stops short of real worth. Its satire on life-on-the-ground is too tentative to slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is it to be nearer the sky that your brother stays up there?" The answer: "My brother considers that anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from...
...these alternatives will be tested in the Houses in the next few months. Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, and Carle T. Tucker, head of the Dining Hall Department, will survey the results of the experiments, and by the start of the Spring term may suggest a concrete program to minimize the increase in board costs...