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...raise a performance beyond this simple level. The introspective Chopin Ballades demand an affinity for the unique style in which they were conceived. This is a stiff order for a young pianist but he must--through coaching or through other methods of consciousness expansion--steep himself in the nineteenth century romantic tradition. Indjic, did not show sufficient feel for rubato--the subtle expansions and contractions of meter. And he also lacked a discriminating taste for the shifting counterpoints--phrases, fragments of phrases, even single notes--which must be emphasized as well, to project an interesting performance of these pieces...
After eight months of organization, the Center moved in July, 1966, to 53 Church St., an early-nineteenth century house which Harvard bought from Cambridge (it was used by the city's Boy Scouts) and renovated to serve as the Center's headquarters for its first few years. Practically all of the Center's main programs were begun in its first academic year...
...faculty member, Dr. Neil Harris. The grant allows Harris, who taught "The Impact of Technology on America" last spring, to spend only half his time teaching and the other half doing his own reading and research (on "crowds and the nature of safety" in the last half of the nineteenth century...
ROTC does in fact represent an alliance between the University and the warmakers, but the alliance is not a new one. Harvard has had some kind of undergraduate military instruction since the early nineteenth century, and its three ROTC units are today among the oldest in the nation. These units were conceived in the atmosphere of internationalism which for many years was Harvard's political character in an isolationist America. The original Army unit was formed largely in response to widespread student demand, when, in late 1915, 1200 men of Harvard enlisted in a new drill unit within...
Humanities 10 will be patterned after the Winthrop House course of the same name. It will cover topics including music and art history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and such modern thinkers as Nietzsche, Tomas Mann, Rilke, Freud, and Yeats...