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Just because we cannot accept the obligation to guarantee freedom everywhere in the world, we should not abandon the ideal of freedom, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government told a meeting of the U.N. Council of Harvard last night...
Council approval of a plan for sports reform does not mean, however, that most colleges and universities will abandon spring practice this year. Hugh C. Willett president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said last night, "The action taken by the American Council on Education will have no immediate effect on the policies of the NCAA...
...closing work, a stupendous Fantasia on the Old 104th Psalm Tune for piano, chorus, and orchestra, should quiet once and for all those critics who call Vaughan's Williams' music austere. This is virtuoso piece with colorful orchestral effects and dramatic abandon for all concerned. The performers, supposedly the largest assemblage of musicians in Sanders Theatre's history, sounded truly jubilant. The final "Prayse ye the Lorde's name," sung fortissimo with cymbals and brass blaring in the orchestra, drew cheers even before the theatre had stopped reverberating. Richard Sogg '52, deserves special credit for his energetic playing...
...mineral-and-vegetable-like structures, commissioned by fantasy-loving Spanish aristocrats, began to sprout in & around Barcelona. Whether his assignment was a mansion, or apartment house, or a hunting lodge, Gaudi designed it with the same back-to-nature abandon, never passed up an opportunity to ripple or bulge a surface, scallop an edge or stick on a few mushrooming towers. To make sure that his weirdly shaped buildings were appropriately furnished, Gaudi would nev er accept a job unless he was allowed to design everything from beds and tables to lamps and plumbing fixtures...
...night, Jordan attacked the recent recommendations of the special committee of college presidents in as address to the American Football Coaches Association of which he is retiring president. The speech, which was carried over A.B.C., hit specifically at the committee's stand on de-emphasis and its proposal to abandon athletic Scholarships, spring practice, and bowl games...