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Since its organization in 1946, the group has given frequent concerts at nearby social functions, journeyed to Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, and Vassar, appeared on television, and sung in the Band concert at Symphony Hall. Plans for the future include weekly informal concerts in the Yard and at Radcliffe, and negotiations are in process to make an album of records. Best of all, the City of Cambridge is helpless--the Pudding bar still ranks as a private club...
That criticism of reading applies pretty much through the section. Gov. 135, the Party Government course--not being given this year or next--has been handled by various people pretty well, but the reading is the same old stuff you got in Government 1. Lambie's municipal government course features dull, solid lectures, as do Hanford's offerings...
Aside from Friedrich's Gov 106, the theory side of Government in conducted at a less intense level. Professor Wright's course in American Political Thought has been temporarily abandoned with the professor's departure; but this is no great loss. Far better courses are given by Professor Beer, a stimulating lecturer and one of the bright young men of the Department. Both his classes in Comparative and Parliamentary Government are well worth taking...
Professor Fainsod, who unfortunately has given up most of his undergraduate connections to work at the Russian research center, still gives one half course in Dictatorship which is both thorough and valuable...
Founded at the turn of the century by Professor Barrett Wendell--in whose honor a yearly prize is still given to concentrators--the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature offers generalarts-inclined students an opportunity for a varied and unspecialized study; with the advantages of a thorough-going tutorial system and a majority of honor students in the enrollment...