Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abruptly Gene Millikin returned to reality-and the hard fact of taxes. He held up a book written by Douglas, onetime college economics instructor, in which Douglas advised against deficit financing when unemployment is under 6%. "Not five and a half," said Millikin, "not four, not seven. It must be six. It is as though the Senator was shooting crap and calling for a number; six is the number...
...arrange Tenzing's trip. But both Peter and U.S. Ambassador to India George V. Allen got a cold turndown from West Bengal officials, who suddenly discovered that Tenzing could not be spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they, to carry out his duties as chief instructor of a government mountaineering school (which, though projected for months, has not yet been set up). Actually, Tenzing's U.S. invitation had given India's touchy Premier Nehru, through his West Bengal branch office, a fine chance to show his pique over U.S. military aid to Pakistan. Somewhat...
...after earning his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. (the second in music ever awarded at Harvard) in less than six years, Davison settled down at the College as an instructor with vague notions of composing orchestral music. Encouraged by Dr. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Davison composed his "Tragic Overture," an orchestral piece founded on Hawthorne's gruesome tale of Rappacini and the sacrifice of his daughter. Performed by the BSO, the overtime brought favorable reviews which praised Davison's "uncrring taste and exceeding skill in the handling of thematic material and the arrangement of orchestral color...
Such comments necessarily pointed toward a life-long career as a composer--except that the young instructor's interests had begun to change. "I began to realize that there already was so much beautiful music in the world that wasn't being played," he recalls. "Then I became interested in students and I saw what could be achieved if I could get them interested in worthwhile music instead of the usual ephemeral songs...
Perhaps the best example of exactly what it is that has inspired his 43 years of outstanding work as an instructor at Harvard can be drawn from the pages of his book, "Choral Conducting." This is, in essence, the credo by which "Doc" has lived and taught...