Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical intentions of the first half of the program were set aside during intermission. The orchestra assembled on the stage with fewer strings than usual, with a mammoth tuba lurking at the rear of the brass section, and with several megatons of percussion prominently displayed. This artillery was lined up to attack Orff's Carmina Burana, at best a second rate piece of music but unfailingly successful as a spectacle...
Dean Glimp, who was chairman of the Faculty committee that recommended the NROTC changes, defends ROTC's place in the curriculum as part of Harvard's responsibility to the community. Pushing ROTC out of the Harvard program, he argues, would be making the college insular at a time when it should be becoming involved. The analogy might hold if ROTC had not become what it is--mechanism for military recruiting and a narrowly pre-professional program. Harvard gives no academic credit for journalism courses, pre-law courses, or pre-business courses; it should give none for pre-military courses either...
...what naval officials would like to see their future officers learn. He explained that during some years such a course might not be given, and the College could not promise to create one to satisfy NROTC's needs. That kind of thinking should be applied to the entire ROTC program: the University should not be warping its academic standards to fit military's manpower needs...
SINGING before a packed house at Sanders Theater Friday evening, the massed forces of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of Elliot Forbes, unleashed a mighty force de frappe in a program calculated to drive the audience into an unholy frenzy. The first half featured delicate works by Elizabethans William Byrd and Thomas Tallis and neo-Elizabethan Benjamin Britten. But after intermission the choir was joined by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, a bacchanale celebrating the headiest side of springtime...
Howard officials agreed to create a student judiciary committee to review charges against 37 students for disrupting a University program on March 1st. The Admininstration declared "unnegotiable" the student demand for the resignation of Howard President James Nabrit. They also said that the students' fourth demand for curriculum changes "will require further discussion...