Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first half of the program was conducted by Michael Senturia '58, and consisted of two motets by Giovanni Gabrieli for chorus and brass choir. Mr. Senturia's deft direction elicited a clean, vigorous attack from both singers and brass in the second of the two, In Ecclesiis, but the first suffered from the same fuzzy intonation and sour accompaniment that despoiled Mr. Forbes' Magnificat...
...groups would, under the proposal, match up directors and plays and then present these to the advisory committee for selection of the final productions. No elaborate production plans would be required during the selection process, as is presently the case. The advisory committee also decided to have the workshop program administered completely...
...while thus far the Harvard proposal has avoided the most obvious pitfall--that of uselessness--there remains the danger of losing sight of the program's purpose. Any "peace corps" proposal must be directed to the real needs of the underdeveloped nations, not toward providing American students with an interesting social experience. For this reason, any project must be what the beneficiaries want and need, on the terms they find most convenient...
...Presumably some sort of legislation in the field will come before Congress next year, but passage may well take more than one session. In this case, the efforts and experience of twenty-five members of the Harvard Class of 1961 could assume considerable importance. A small but operative University program next fall, worthwhile in itself, would also serve as an extremely helpful guide for a much larger Government project...
...Harvard is less aware of the human aspects of being educated than it could be. And, indirectly, one could tie in much of "Encounters with Learning" with a host of current Harvard issues: expansion in a college where students feel anonymous, the need for a good non-Honors tutorial program, and, above all, the need for recognition that the content of a college education may not be as important as the styles of thought and value that one selects from college teachers...