Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Harvard Policy Committee first proposed a pass-fail option nearly two years ago, one of its major goals was encouraging experimentation with courses outside a student's own field of concentration. But as of now, Music I seems to be the only definite success by this standard...
...other hand, Music I enrollment jumped from 275 to about 325 this year. Head section man Lowell E. Lindgren yesterday attributed "some of the increase" to pass-fail students. Over 100 applied to take Music I pass-fail, and the course staff decided Saturday to accept all of them, because of what Lindgren called the students' "convincing reasons...
...learned to play the concertina at six and the guitar at nine. The advent of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s inspired him to try singing, too. At 17, he began plying the coffee-house circuit from Greenwich Village to Chicago's Old Town, combining folk music with rock, standards and novelties...
Died. Red Foley, 58, who sang his way to the top of the country-and-Western music charts with Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy, Peace in the Valley and others; of pulmonary edema; in Fort Wayne...
Died. Michael Carr (born Cohen), 64, a Dublin-reared Jew who wrote the music of some of the most popular Irish songs, including Did Your Mother Come from Ireland? and Everybody's Got a Touch of Irish; in London. Carr ran away to sea as a teenager, worked as a Hollywood bit player before moving to England, where he composed South of the Border and Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line...