Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tomorrow night will be the first time the College has seen its Glee Club this term. Included in the program are choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience," a group of American and British folk songs, a Bach cantata, and a performance of the "Tarantella," conducted by composer Professor Randall Thompson...
...program of faculty "advice" to students can fall anywhere between two extremes. These extremes are a paternalistic system on the one hand, and, on the other, a system in which the student must take the initiative in seeking advice...
...Freshman, newly arrived at Harvard, cannot be expected to know what problems he must ask his adviser about. Distribution rulings are for him so much fine type in the course catalogue; and the whole task of selecting a program presents him with what is generally an unfamiliar difficulty. Often such a simple problem as meeting the language requirement throws the Freshman for a loss; 72 upperclassmen were on language pro at the time this penalty was abolished two weeks ago, and at least some of this difficulty came from improper planning in the freshman year...
While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...
...adventure ideas that have been worked to death already. But occasionally, script-writers emerge with some fortunate stroke that is worthy of Chester Gould, or possibly Al Capp. The Sword was such a creation, and anybody who cares to endure several dozen kiddie shows might find another. Incidentally, every program is running some sort of contest. Prizes are usually bikes or toy pistols, but once in a while a car or Bendix pops into the lineup. Such items are worth trying for. It means eating lots of Ralston and swilling Ovaltine, but the competitors are minor league, and the potential...