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Peggy Pearson, oboist and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, will present a Recital of Solo Works for Oboe as part of the Radcliffe Institute Colloquia Series in their Colloquium Room at 4 pm. The recital will be followed at 5:30 by wine and cheese. In the room the women will come and go talking of not Michaelangelo but oboe...
...April of 1969, the committee issued an outline of a proposed degree program in Afro for undergraduates. The proposed plan was that students would take all the requirements for an established major, as well as some colloquia and/or seminars in black studies for credit. In order to study Afro-American studies, students would have to take another concentration, and take on more work in addition. One can understand the outrage which black students felt when they strenuously rejected this proposal as a violation of the spirit of the Rosovsky report. One can not understand why Rosovsky did not see this...
...part of "Smithsonian Year", the institution's annual justification to Congress, the Smithsonian publishes a scoresheet, the "Report of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory." The Public Affairs Office of the Center puts out a series of educational pamphlets: "Comets", "Meteorites", and so forth. The Observatory holds open nights and colloquia, to which anyone interested is invited. And the tennis courts are free to Harvard students...
THESE TOKEN ATTEMPTS at interaction with the world outside the scientific enclave serendipitously serve to bind the members of the Observatory together. The colloquia and tennis are among the few common rituals in this intensely pluralistic society. The Observatory buildings mark the intersection of an almost infinite number of lines of research. But there is little communication between them; each fraternity keeps to itself. Research projects are conceived and funded separately, and teams work as closed units. A group will have more contact with people doing similar work in Arizona, or the USSR, than it will with a group doing...
...Institute the prospective Fellows and Associates for the following year," plus the awarding of summer research grants which would be for undergraduates. DISC has recommended that two undergraduates join with two faculty, two Institute Associates or Fellows, and two graduate students in a committee to organize optional forums, colloquia and non-credit seminars. They have also recommended that students participate in the search for a director of the Institute...