Word: orientedness
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It was obvious, then, that while still admitting the importance of the lecture system, the committee also acknowledged the wisdom of the desire for greater independent study with a tutor. This had always been a fundamental principle of the Honors program at Harvard, but had not always been practiced as...
¶ The State Department ended the academic stir caused by Protestant-oriented Harvard Divinity School's recent appointment of British Historian Christopher Dawson to a new chair in Roman Catholic studies. The department denied Dawson a visa-"for a strictly medical reason," which it refused to disclose. The reason...
A bachelor, Berrigan works seven days a week "from early morning to early morning," is likely to show up at a dignified party in an outsize, loud sports shirt, and is famed among Bangkok's beggars of high and low degree for being the softest touch in town. He...
He had trouble digging up talented drummers, found that most of his sidemen (average age: 23) had a classically oriented training: "They kept giving me the blue-serge treatment. I had to work hard to get that rough-tweed effect." Language was a problem too; Brown's instructions to...
Paul N. Carlson, Horace Mann principal, sees advantages in a system which discourages bright students from becoming bookworms. He notes, "I have felt many times that many of our academically-oriented students did spend too much time in the speech arts, band, or vocal music. On the other hand, some...