Word: hums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other workshops tied to courses are offered by Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy, in connection with Phil 1; Stephen Gilman, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, together with Hum 7; and McGeorge Bundy, professor of Government, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, who will direct a group of from five to eight freshmen in study related to Gov 185. Walter J. Bate, professor of English, "will conduct a tutorial program for two or three freshmen with exceptional ability and interest in English literature," and William Alfred, assistant professor of English, plans an informal seminar in literature...
Thus among the countless traumas a freshman may fall heir to, an agonizing struggle in Hum 5 or Phil 1 with Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is evidently one of the most severe; many a small town has lost its most promising Baptist in those ordeals, and many a fashionable parish the scion of its most prominent Episcopalian. Freud's Moses and Monotheism or The Future of an Illusion must provoke nearly equal distress; one atheist passes up all alternatives listed on the questionnaire and writes, "God is man's interpretation of what dissatisfies him.... A rejection...
...unsophisticated outsider could tell you--who had not become mesemrized by the tripartite division of the Harvard course catalogue--the conclusions you reach on certain subjects in "Hum" are basic to your whole outlook even in "Soc Sci." Dropping God from one's metaphysical inventory does not leave everything else neatly in place; enormous reverberations are set up which it would be perilous to ignore...
...scene to gladden even the most jaded cruise director. The open-air movie was filled to capacity with a bronzed, relaxed audience. In the swimming pool near by, energetic types were splashing away at water polo. From the "Bikini" bar came the clink of glasses and the hum of bar babble, and in the soft glow cast by indirect neon lighting, palm leaves fluttered...
Whatever the reason, Columbia has one set of listeners singing along in earnest-its competitors at RCA Victor. By last week, Victor had three imitations in the stores, lavish albums lined with paper that looks like the kind used for $20 bills. Hum and Strum Along with Chet Akins, the Robert Shaw Chorale's Stephen Foster Song Book, and Words and Music with the Ames Brothers include booklets giving not only the words but also piano or ukulele and guitar chords...