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...dictate the employment policies, and thereby the educational policies, of Harvard University and of our other universities and schools? For Harvard to stand fast now against the undemocratic pressures to fire her four courageous faculty members will be to strengthen and advance academic freedom and democracy. Rev. Amos C. Barstow Murphy...
...that twelve tones to the octave were just not enough for his purposes. He constructed a mathematically more perfect scale of 43 tones; working mostly under University of Wisconsin and Guggenheim grants and fellowships, he also invented instruments capable of playing his 43-tone music. Partch pieces, such as Barstow-Hitchhiker Inscriptions on a California Highway Railing, left the pundits bewildered...
Although Dartmouth aces Charlis Stewart, Jim Caldwell, Fred Barstow, and Two Arenenberg placed first, third, fourth and fifth. Harvard took a solid block of place (9 to 15) that were almost enough to even the overall combined score in seconds. That block was made up mostly of members of the regular undergraduate ski team...
...Bernardino, someone had handed him a basket of eggs. "At least they didn't throw them at me," he cracked. A man in the crowd yelled: "What about throwing them at Taft?" The President replied: "Oh, I wouldn't throw fresh eggs at Taft." At Barstow, past midnight, he popped out on the platform in pajamas and blue bathrobe. When a woman shouted that he sounded as if he had a cold, Harry Truman answered, "That's because I ride around in the wind with my mouth open." At almost every stop, he introduced Mrs. Truman...
...Jerome Kern score has not lost too much of its charm, and in such a tune as Look for the Silver Lining has not lost any. The dances, as arranged by Richard Barstow, at times have a gaiety that is both real and reminiscent. And there is something almost touching about the unabashed Cinderella plot-the little dishwasher who winds up as a hit in the Follies...