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...Blackmer Committee was created in fall 1951 in response to increased demands for the United States to support education of its best students...
Harvard’s proposals for allowing students to expedite their education came on the heels of the Blackmer Report, issued by the “Big Three” universities and prep schools—Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, along with Exeter, Andover and Lawrenceville...
...movement of dance. "Snappy Crayons," which lends the piece its title, is just one of these scenes. In this demonstration of the "soon-to-be sport of foam baton air drawing," Whiteside is joined by four cast members--Martha Mason, Marjorie Morgan, David Russell and Harvard junior John Blackmer '98. To the music of Bill Frisell, the dancers climb all over each other with remarkable strength, waving brightly colored foam batons. The ease with which the dancers twist their bodies around each other is fascinating, and the unpredictable contortions are sure to raise a laugh from the audience...
Harvard student Blackmer makes his professional debut with "Snappy Crayons," not only dancing in the show, but also assisting in the choreography of several scenes, including the very funny "Gunslinger." "Gunslinger," the highlight of the second act, features Blackmer and Whiteside in a mock gunfight. Pantomiming guns with their hands, they climb on and over each other to a country western love song by Patsy Cline. The romantic undertones of the dance complicate this humorous scene, but even these more serious suggestions could not alter the general mood...
...about some of the proctors' attitudes orinability to return phone calls for scheduling,and the proctors complain about the quality of thepeer groups' outreaches or having to force theirstudents to go them. "Oh man, they suck," is theword in the Yard on peer group outreaches,according to John F. Blackmer '98. Even though hecontinues, "whenever 1600 people in the Yard aresaying one word together, it's probably prettyshallow," the message is still clear. First-yearshave a tendency to dread outreaches...