Word: harvard
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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, declared he prefers John F. Kennedy '40 for President, in a poll of 54 men and women published by Esquire this week. Only one of six other Harvard professors stating their Presidential choices agreed with Galbraith...
...disappointing to see Sanders only half full for the H.R.O.'s Christmas concert of modern music. If the poor attendance was in main due to the fact that the program consisted entirely of works composed in this century, then this speaks ill for Harvard's intelligentsia. Certainly the first and last pieces on the program by Samuel Barber and Manuel DeFalla could not possibly be considered "difficult" works and, to those familiar with Schoenberg's atonal period and the orchestral songs of Mahler, the Octandre by Edgar Varese, the French avant-garde composer and the Four Orchestra Songs...
...only support for Nixon among the Harvard respondents came from Stanley F. Teele, Dean of the Business School. He saw the essential issue as living with Russia "without sacrificing any of our essential values...
...specialization in the departmental concentration programs, principally because of the importance of graduate students in undergraduate teaching. Assigning non-Honors tutorial to the General Education Committee is the first step in making someone responsible for non-departmental education, beyond mere distribution, at the upperclass level. It is encouraging that Harvard is again coming to recognize that the non-specialist deserves not only tutorial, but a full-fledged education...
Terence Hawkes, of University College in Cardiff, England, leveled the charge in a letter to the Guardian's editors. "I think it is still true to say that Harvard and many other 'Ivy League' colleges select their students on the fundamentally undemocratic and manifestly illegal basis of 'quota.'" Hawkes wrote. "Only a certain number of Jewish and Negro student are admitted each year, regardless of academic prowess...