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Popularly known as the Corporation, the self-perpetuating body of seven men, who constitute the President and Fellows of Harvard College, has been described by John Hayes Gardiner, Harvard historian, as "the owners and managers of the University in trust for the community."
The Harvard Corporation has not always been "a board of trustees connected with the living organism of the University only through the President," as Samuel Eliot Morison, professor of History and official Harvard historian, describes it.
Since 1784, when John Lowell '60, business man and first of the Harvard-Lowell dynasty, was appointed to the Corporation, the Fellows have been mainly wealthy doctors, lawyers, and business men of Boston (and later New York).
Of course, one expects this in works like the Hanson symphonies (the third will be played in Sanders Theatre this week) and in Hill's Violin Concerto (also on the Sanders Theatre program), for these men have never been identified with the most advanced group of modern composers. But even...
The Piston Concertino for Piano and Orchestra which the Boston Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of...