The streaming of students by age and intellectual ability and through examinations was at first discarded but later reintroduced.
It also desired to check the wild race for academic distinction and "to divert some part of the rapidly swelling stream of students into channels of a more practical character".
Dawn Zimmerman Hummel, the center's founder and executive director of its parent foundation, said the building has unusually wide hallways to accommodate a stream of students, several of them in wheelchairs.
Just plant yourself somewhere near the sprawling University of Michigan campus and wait to be carried along in the stream of students, fans and alumni heading for the city's main event: Big Ten football in the largest stadium in college athletics.
He is an older Italian man with a particularly high-tuned piano, it seems, and a steady stream of students who sing in scales while he taps the ivory keys obediently — for hours.
Mr. Assad, in a sober business suit, conducts affairs of state — greeting soldiers, meeting with political and religious leaders or speaking at a lectern — while his fashionable and unveiled wife poses with an endless stream of students, chats with an elderly disabled woman on Mother's Day and plays with children.
A steady stream of students has passed through the office — some staying for just a few hours, others for nearly the whole time — to spread word about the rebellion, posting various satires and subversions to the Web, searching for a better solution to Cooper's financial crisis, eating catered meals and entertaining visits from well-known activists.
He wandered with us into Harvard Yard, where my mother often sat on the grass on pleasant days and watched the stream of students and professors filing busily along the paths, until, finally, as we were climbing the steps to Widener Library so that I could use the bathroom, he tapped my mother on the shoulder and inquired, in English, if she might be a Bengali.
They were part of the steady stream of students on Monday in the office of Elizabeth Rorschach, the department chairwoman, sitting in the black armchair next to her desk, pleading to join intensive classes in English as a second language, or ESL as they are known.
For many years Hurwitz was a professor at the RAM, and then taught a stream of students at home; his aim was to encourage players to make a first-class sound, and never be deterred by technical problems, for which he had a wide repertory of solutions.
