Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a widely-held belief among tennis players that playing squash ruins their game. Three superstars from Harvard's squash team hope to prove that notion mistaken...
AMERICAN PROFILE: HOME COUNTRY, USA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley discusses the belief that the strength of the U.S. rests in its grass roots. Camera crews roam the countryside recording the lives of Americans from East Boothbay Harbor, Me., to Bozeman, Mont...
...wind instruments, four banjos, and no fewer than 42 percussion pieces-not including the four pianos, whose keyboards were smashed by forearms and whose strings were struck with cymbals and strummed with fingernails. And the score-simple, severe and static-was the furthest extension yet of Orff's belief that music should be set to words, not the other way around...
...reply to Monday's editorial about NROTC curriculum changes, I should like to offer a different interpretation of the action taken by the Committee on Educational Policy. You implied that the CEP, motivated by a belief in the existence of "the conflict between ROTC's privileged place on campus and Harvard's academic standards," revised the NROTC curriculum "by chopping one-and-a-half credit courses out of the NROTC program" and adding "some solid college courses." Actually, the Navy proposed these changes, not the college, in an effort to improve its students' education. The CEP's action is rightly...
...what Naval officials would like to see their future officers learn." The Dean was referring specifically to administrative difficulties, e.g., that Social Sciences 112 is not taught every year, and his statement does not at all belie that he or the members of the CEP share the Crimson's belief that the Navy would like to change the content of those professors' courses, or that the Navy doesn't want its students to learn what they have to teach. The Navy never asked to change the courses; what it did ask was permission to require its students to take...