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Thank you for your vigilance. A. Tillman Merritt. Chairman...
...letter printed elsewhere in this column Mr. A. Tillman Merritt makes some encouraging statements concerning the Music Department. That the Department is planning to test a music theory course for non-concentrators this summer is evidence of a sensitive and progressive attitude toward its responsibilities to the College...
...receptiveness of Mr. Merritt and his faculty to suggestions might lead them to a further examination of their department's course offerings, for theory is not the only area in which non-concentrators are at a disadvantage. Only Music 1 and one other course are available every year for any but semi-professional musicians-i.e., those who have not had any theory and do not play an instrument. The other non-concentrators' course varies from "The Symphony" to "Chamber Music from Haydn to Brahms," but only one is offered each year...
Criticism of the Music Department should not obscure its intelligent habit of self-examination. On this and other occasions Mr. Merritt and his fellows have displayed the rarest of academic virtues: the recognition of flaws in one's own armor. If every department in the College were to do the same, weaknesses, archaicisms, and inconsistencies would be fewer than they...
...Merritt Parkway and most highways leading out of Boston lay buried under a six-inch blanket pock-marked throughout with yawning potholes. Jackknifed trucks and ditched cars stretched along US route 9, with busses travelling only in conveys...