He was so devoted to the academy that he named two of his businesses, Thayer Capital and Thayer Lodging Group Inc., after Sylvanus Thayer, known as the "father" of West Point.
Yet it was at bottom a very successful pay-as-you-go school, not an academy devoted to training dancers from childhood.
It is an Academy devoted to contemporary music as defined by the more established programs at Berklee and the Thornton School at USC that includes in its curriculum film scoring, music production, song writing, technology/production and contemporary performance but also includes classical music.
In Europe or Asia, he said, the teenagers would already have spent years in a sports academy, devoting their time to nothing but table tennis.
The minister described seeing a Chinese teacher in a Harris academy devote an entire lesson to how to multiply two double digit figures ending in zero.
The academy is also devoted to training students and to publicizing scientific achievements and knowledge.
A physical confrontation would be playing right into the hands of the student protesters, but more than that, Truman, who had devoted his life to the academy, couldn't stomach the thought of a thousand cops in riot helmets storming the campus.
Travelling across courts, academies, streets, and buildings devoted to new institutions, this course examines the cultural, material, urban, social, and political dimensions of architecture, as well as temporal and geographic migrations of architectural knowledge.
Travelling across courts, academies, streets, and buildings devoted to new institutions, this course examines the cultural, material, urban, social, and political dimensions of architecture, as well as temporal and geographic movements of architectural knowledge.
Acocella is clearly determined to rescue Cather's reputation from the academy, and, equally clearly, is devoted to her subject.
