Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most difficult work on the program, for both the orchestra and the audience was the Berg Kammerkonzert. Mr. Greenebaum performed it twice, before and after intermission. It warranted repetition, partly because the piece rests heavily on formal devices which are almost impossible to grasp on the first hearing, partly because it is an interesting and seldom-played composition, but mostly because the second performance was far better than the first. The orchestra seemed surer of the rhythms, and their initial timidity had entirely worn...
Some 500 Harvard ROTC cadets will parade in the annual joint military review at Soldiers Field this afternoon. The review features a contest among the drill teams of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Officer Training units at 2:30 p.m., and a formal parade, led by the Harvard Band, at 3:15 p.m. Inspection by members of the Overseers' Visiting Committee will follow...
...general, the new educational policy will have honors candidates take two years of tutorial for credit and schedule only fourteen formal courses instead of the present fifteen. The greater emphasis placed on tutorial work is an encouraging move; but, with only fourteen courses in which to satisfy distribution requirements and accumulate enough required knowledge for general examinations, the able student considering course reduction might be fearful of dropping a further course...
...this week, the Houses will be able to function as small New England colleges, fraternity houses, and the other collegiate socal units, instead of intellectual centers. The All-College Spring Weekend will begin on Friday evening and will continue as a three-day, semi-formal party...
Significantly, Eliot House is planning only a folk song concert on Friday night and a Spring Formal the next evening. Eliot has also indicated that parietal hours will be extended. A member of the House staff called this Eliot House decision "Britannia Waives the Rules...