Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Harris prefaces his statement as follows: "I am very glad to write a note on the problem of future enrollments at Harvard. What I write is, of course, a purely personal opinion; but I believe at this time it is helpful to throw all views into the discussion hopper." The statement follows...
...this connection, it is worth taking a look at recent history. Harvard has tended to increase its enrollment much less than the nation. The percentage decline related above for the longer span is relevant. But note the following: 1920--1940 1940--1954-55 % rise all IHL* 150 65 % rise Harvard College 37 24 % Harvard to all IHL 25 37 *Institutions of Higher Learning...
...Note: These figures are subject to some reservations. They do not take into account the large increase in the contribution of graduate education by Harvard. But a comparison of all IHL and Harvard College enrollment is influenced relatively little by excluding graduate students from all IHL. (About 10 per cent of all students are graduate students...
...reality than it ever has before; and 2) destroy reality or transmute it beyond recognition. In this sense, Composer Varèse is a typical 20th century artist. He goes about with a tape recorder, picking up very real sounds that may range from a factory whistle to an organ note to a kissing sound captured right at home. Then, by using electronic machinery that might have baffled his father, he takes the "raw" sounds, breaks them up into components, forms rhythmic patterns with them, amplifies and filters them till they bear no resemblance to their former selves. After such treatment...
...mature scholars who work on individual research projects. In the Center are such men as Merle Fainsod, professor of Government and an expert on the workings of the modern Russian state. Most of these scholars have at least a Ph.D. and have already published works of note...