Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first revolution taught man to build machines to accomplish tasks far beyond the power of his own muscles. Now, through electronics he is learning to endow his mechanical monsters with a sensory complex something like his own-eyes, ears, even a brain of sorts-so that they automatically perform his workaday chores and take on thousands of complicated new tasks...
...over 26 years, Harvard has been graced by the Lowell House Bells. Until divine justice eradicates them, the bells will continue to be an inescapable fact of life in Cambridge. That they perform no useful or aesthetic function does not alter this fact. They are here to stay...
...hard their future student or employee worked in college. On the other hand, those who would change the system propose that aptitude and substantive exams be perfected and used for these purposes, since some reliance is already placed on them. It is doubtful, however, whether such methods can adequately perform the informative, and usually reliable, service that grades provide employers and graduate schools...
...issue would seem, therefore, to incline to the abolitionists' favor, were it not for the problem of supplying employers and graduate schools with indications of the student's college efforts. This is a considerable factor. But if tests can be developed to perform this function satisfactorily, then grades would become useless as well as meaningless. With this possibility in mind, the consequences of the established system should receive serious constructive efforts at evaluation and reconsideration...
...growth of the dramatic organizations also points up another problem, that of the nature of joint Harvard-Radcliffe organizations. At the moment, most of the groups are chartered as a Radcliffe club and a Harvard club, when in fact they perform as one organization. It is, I believe, again time to review our thinking on this matter and to discuss with the deans at Harvard the possibility and wisdom of having truly joint activities...