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Professional Potential. In his 16 years at Juilliard, Schuman. the man most responsible for its continuing role as the nation's No. 1 conservatory, made it flourish as never before. In place of oldfashioned theory courses, he instituted a widely discussed curriculum called "Literature and Materials of Music," which used the music of the past as text and was largely taught by composers. The Juilliard that Mennin inherits has a flourishing dance department that numbers in its faculty Martha Graham. Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, and a topnotch quartet-in-residence, headed by Violinist Robert Mann. Juilliard stresses contemporary music...
...letters perused the diagrammatic play-by-play reports of the weekend's football game that were published on Monday mornings. A faculty resolution attacking overemphasis on intercollegiate athletics the year before had not dampened their enthusiasm, and Men in the cheering section were careful to secure crimson handkerchiefs to flourish during the singing of the "Marseillaise...
Mark Mullin ran his last race for Harvard Saturday at Villanova, and ended one of Harvard's most distinguished athletic careers with an unforgettable flourish. Today the Crimson track captain will receive the William J. Bingham award, the highest athletic honor the University can bestow...
...works -- is marked by a lack of originality, a lack of interest, and a sterility that cause the monotonously regular and quite fair pannings that local magazines get in the CRIMSON reviews.... The fact is that Harvard plays up scholarship at the expense of creativity ... [but] where creative thinking flourishes, there the creative arts should flourish also; there will be no untouchable caste of painters, no group of Donne- and-Yeats-citing and always identifiable poets, but a general interest and activity in the arts...." from a letter to the CRIMSON...
...what, if anything, has this to do with the Advocate? Let's go back to the letter: "where creative thinking flourishes," it says, "there the creative arts should flourish also. ...There will be no group of Donne-and-Yeats-citing and always identifiable poets...." He has accused our poets of imitation, and of course he's absolutely right. One only wonders why he concluded his list at Donne and Yeats. In the last year alone we have published imitations of Shaw, Shakespeare, Pope, Faulkner, Rimbaud, Keats, D. H. Lawrence Lorca, , William Carls Williams, Goldsmith, Katherine Mansfield, Hemingway, Lowell, Wilde...