Word: instruments
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...knowledge of piano playing, or any other reasonable instrument, is not required, but is practically obligatory, if only for playing over written exercises. Further, a knowledge of harmony is valuable for anybody entering the field. The staff is interested enough in modern music to give ample encouragement to any student whose interest lies in that direction (jazz players excepted...
With only 23 concentrators, Music is one of the smallest fields in the College. It is the avowed intention of the Department to supply a broad musical background in history, forms, and appreciation, and it does not attempt to teach applied music (technique if an instrument or the voice) which would be required by a composer or a musician. It is very different from the Yale School of Music which is a separate unit and supplies a training similar to a conservatory...
Knowledge of Instrument...
Frank Darvall, noted English scholar and lecturer, discussed recent British sentiment in regard to foreign affairs. With this as an example he pressed the fight for peace on the European front, the "need to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy but not to attack the principle of an international police to preserve peace, by force if necessary...
With the adoption of the new Student Council constitution last night an instrument for common action was placed squarely in the hands of the Harvard student body. The most novel provision of the document is section 3, Article V, which requires the Council to give due consideration to any proposal that undergraduates may lay before it, and, in exceptional cases, or on the petition of 500 undergraduates, to hold a referendum on such a proposal...