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...considers the question of "depth" versus "breadth" in a Harvard education, that is, in a liberal education. With regard to this question one might also recall that the founders of Harvard aimed ultimately at "the advancement of all literature and artes and Sciences." This "liberal ideal" burgeoned into President Abbot Lawrence Lowell's "a little of everything and something well." President Conant continued to foster this ideal and embodied it in his General Education Program...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, for example, was "not convinced that a position of military weakness might not be more dangerous" than our present posture...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, and Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, will speak at 8:30 p.m. tonight at Cambridge High and Latin, at the corner of Broadway and Trowbridge St. The discussion is sponsored by Scientists and Engineers for Johnson-Humphrey...
...reprints are being supervised by Walter Jackson Bate '39, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, and Herschel Baker, professor of English...
...curious delights of a long and varied line-up of forgotten composers, such as the polyphonic wizardry of Ludwig Senfl, composer to the court of Maximilian I, the mystical motets of Martin de Rivaflecha, chapelmas-ter at the Cathedral of Valencia, and the Rabelaisian merriment of Adriano Banchieri, abbot of an Olivetan monastery. Its most ambitious undertaking was The Play of Daniel, a 12th century music-drama that was unearthed in the British Museum. Elegantly staged in medieval setting and dress in a Manhattan church, Daniel was a solid off-Broadway hit of the 1959 season, won further acclaim during...