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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capriccio, Bach fugues and fifteenth century canciones provide background music at the Mozart. "I much prefer to listen to Schweitzer play Bach than have someone strumming in here. Besides I don't like the guitar much--except for Segovia. I also try to discourage the exhibitionist tendency so often found in today's coffee houses, and I think it is very well discouraged here...
...Cafe, Yarrow considers as much a type of personal expression as a cafe tailored to catch customers. "Running a coffee house can often have its thrilling moments. Last week someone brought in a recorder and I played the violin. This is the sort of thing that makes it really worthwhile." The coffee house atmosphere is one of civilization, Yarrow finds. The Cafe Mozart would seem to be his attempt to prove that the moment of truth can be found in good company and over a cup of fine coffee...
...Slavic Department should plan to offer the new introductory course in 1958-59, and should look to the day when "Govoritye po-russky?" is heard as often as "Parlez-vous francais...
...Packard's major troubles is that he is a journalist, not a social scientist, and cannot evaluate the information he examines. Often, he is overly credulous in believing the effectiveness of the newly discovered techniques and in the incomplete explanations of behavior offered by those engaged in "motivational research." In his desire to sermonize, Packard does not really realize the good done by the motivational research expert, both in finding what people really need and also in broadening knowledge about human behavior...
...what is regarded as the strongest argument for not having freshmen in the Houses, the inadvisability of being exposed to upperclassmen, is one of the strongest arguments for having freshmen in the Houses. Being surrounded by people in "the same boat" is not necessarily a good thing; this experience often only intensifies the fear of the academic process that bedevils many freshmen. Many freshmen take the academic requirements of Harvard far too seriously, usually to their academic and personal detriment...