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Associate Provost John C. Westling notified the professors they may be fired or suspended in letters dated October 31. Westling yesterday declined to comment except to confirm that he had sent the letters. Steven Wagner, director of public relations, also refused to comment...
...chose the plan, proposed by the Educational Resources Group (ERG), over a stiffer option recommended by Mack I. Davis, director of advanced standing, which would grant sophomore standing only to students who received a score of 4 on four A.P. exams. The highest possible grade...
Possibly the uninspiring discussions on the merger put Marquand and his colleagues to sleep. Only one thing do Faculty members clearly recall about the debates--they were dull. Chase N. Peterson, then Harvard's director of the admissions and financial aid and now vice-president at the University of Utah, says no one was "exceptionally passionate." Back then the Faculty had more passion-inducing issues than the fund drive and the Core Curriculum to consider. When former Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting formally opened the Faculty talks on the merger in April 1969, the student strike erupted two days later...
Today, the Office of the Arts at Harvard-Radcliffe under the guiding hand of director Myra A. Mayman, has grown enormously in breadth and depth, offering instruction in many arts including pottery, printmaking, painting and dance. "When I came to Harvard in 1973, the arts were too recreational," Mayman explains. "It was my intention to start serious and demanding programs in the arts that focused on expert direction and instruction." Following the merger, Harvard took responsibility for sports, dance became a stepped-up program and all vestiges of recreation were soon gone...
...discretionary fund provides capital for programs that deal more directly with the analytical and philosophical side of the arts. "Learning from Performers" is one such program. Each year it brings guest artists to Harvard to work on a small scale with undergraduates. Last year, the program brought the director of Broadway's Pacific Overtures. He ran a three-part seminar with students interested in theatrical direction. This year the office will offer seminars with tenor Paul Sperry and playwright Jonathan Levy. Sculptor Ann Sperry will offer a seminar as well as lecturing about contemporary American women artists. "We want...