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...Greek drama at Harvard, the Harvard-Radcliffe Classical Players are offering a gem of a production. Those who witnessed the 1881 production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex can now see what eventually happened to the King in the play's sequel, Oedipus Coloneus, the last of the dramatist's seven extant tragedies...
...four clavichord pieces played by Edward Dunham III, the last three were delightful. The first was dull but interesting as an historical curiosity, for it is the earliest extant keyboard music (dated c.1325). Dunham demonstrated that the clavichord can produce all the dynamic shades from very soft to very, very, very soft. He underlined the informality of the evening by puffing a pipe in time to his playing...
Morgan explained to Howell the committee's objections to the then extant $600 limit tax law, describing how it stifled initiative, hindered the student who is perhaps most to be commended from helping himself, and handicapped college scholarship and loan boards, which could use their funds to provide more people with educations if students could cut down their scholarship needs by employment...
...part of the Qumran find-27 fragments from the first and second chapters of Samuel I-recently pieced together and translated. Some of his fragments differ from existing Hebrew Biblical texts, and Scholar Cross believes they should be accepted as older and nearer the original than any other extant version. Among the corrections and additions he offers: Eli, the priest, was 90 years old at his death (not 98, as the King James version has it); Samuel, whose mother pledged him to the Lord's service for "all the days of his life," was thereupon enrolled...
...formerly large activity is now non-extant, however. Since Rock took over in '36 there have been no major operations in Stillman's outmoded operating room. The great teaching hospitals affiliated with the Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham, Mass. General, Both Israel, the Eye and Ear, have taken care of Harvard's needs...