Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stuart G. McCornack '58, of Leverett House and Short Hills, N.J., has been elected manager of the Crimson swimming team, and Peter B. Dunbar, of Lowell House and Colfax, Ind., became varsity hockey manager...
Interviews will continue in Leverett House tomorrow...
Speaking at a Leverett House symposium on "The University and the Public Life," Rostow said that the American tendency towards specialization in study and thought "is at least effective in a situation which requires radical innovation promptly...
...Sunday night Leverett House commemorated its 25th Anniversary with a beguiling program of widely assorted music. The first half of the concert was played by the Harvard Brass Choir, which made a noble attempt at the Contrapunctus One from Bach's Art of the Fugue, and delighted the audience with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg...
...second half of the program was given to the Cambridge Festival Orchestra, an excellent strings group under the leadership of Daniel Pinkham. As well as playing some diverting performances of music by Karl Friedrich Abel and Henry Purcell, the Orchestra presented works of two composers who were Leverett House men, Robert Moevs and Pinkham himself. The Adagio from the ballet Endymion by Moevs, and the Concertante by Pinkham were both notable more for their lyrical warmth than for modern astringent harmonies. Perhaps a sojourn in Leverett House would do us all good...