Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Given the enormous variety of experience which Harlem on My Mind offers, it is regrettable that it has met with so much misplaced criticism. In editorializing that Hoving is responsible for "Irrelevancy at the Museum," the New York Times is choosing comfort and convenience over difficult self-assessment. Their warning of January 22nd--that "the politicalization of art and all other forms of culture is a favorite device of dictatorship"--is ridiculously severe. Better they should deplore the pressures which led several New York City councilmen to threaten the end of the city's three-million-dollar allocation...
...prepared of Boston-area faculty members who have special knowledge and expertise concerning Afro-American affairs who are willing to conduct independent studies (arranged through Harvard fields of concentration) with Harvard students. The Committee to be charged with encouraging instruction in Afro-American Studies (see Section II) should be given responsibility for discovering and disseminating such information...
...many years we have given basic medical instruments to students as a mark of our appreciation for their willingness to undertake the long, difficult road to an education as a physical. The instruments have been offered with the prior approval of the medical schools. Over the years, most students have accepted them gratefully...
...defending the CEP resolution to allow ROTC courses to reapply for credit through existing Harvard departments, James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, said that the CEP's proposal is the only one consistent with Faculty policy, since it leaves the Faculty the power to decide "what courses are given and who gives them...
THERE IS a double homecoming at the Fogg. The Grenville L. Winthrop Retrospective is an exhibit of the Fogg's greatest bequest, given by Grenville Winthrop in 1943. The show evokes the collection's first home in Mr. Winthrop's East 81st Street apartment, and simultaneously establishes how much at home it is in the Fogg Museum on Quincy Street. I have never seen such a combination of warmth and excellence in a show here -- professional in its catalogue, hanging, and choosing of objects and so intimate at the same time...