Word: know
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Afternoon performances are notoriously ragged--especially when it rains--and Sanders Theatre certainly isn't the ideal place for a large concert, anyway. I know this, and the above should serve as an apology to the members of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, whose collective Christmas Concert I attended yesterday afternoon, instead of yesterday evening. But one expects (no doubt quite unreasonably) that any performance of a major work by the top musicians of Harvard will generate a certain amount of excitement; and yesterday's (which didn't) was even at best a disappointment...
...also have book fairs from time to time. We know the kids can't afford hard covered books, so we sell paperbacks. We just want them to get in the habit of buying books...
...Harvard plan, as it has now evolved, is probably the best of all possible "peace corps." It will give the beneficiaries the teachers they need, not the manual labor they don't know what to do with. Africa has no use for a massive American work camp, no matter what the spiritual benefits of such a project might be for the students who participated...
...kind of work I was doing, that I had with professors and instructors was pracitically nil... In fact ... when I have been looking for a job ... it's been very embarrassing, because you just can't say to these people, at Harvard you just don't get to know the instructors very well. And you might say, well, this guy is just out of it and antisocial, and you just listen to reasons why he is unable to supply us with the names of three people... I have put down the names of some people on the faculty...
...what they say to you ... but you can never forget his love and his devotion for it, this you will never forget. At times you can recall some of the intensity with which he discussed the subject. Then you will be bound to do this on your own. You know, try to respond to his memory...