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The Core Curriculum is only a poor substitute for the good advice and counseling that would direct, but not coerce students to attain a balanced education. And the Core will not solve one of Harvard's fundamental problems: the dearth of close associations between students and Faculty members. Instead, by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reject The Core | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

Better coordinated and disciplined than in some of its previous concerts, the HRC played with feeling, alternating between restraint and considerable power. Conductor James Yannatos brought out the talent in the HRO, combining the roles of the individual instruments with the orchestra as a whole. The dreamy forest of Debussy...

Author: By Richard Kreindler, | Title: Reverie at Sanders | 3/8/1978 | See Source »

A5 Dr. Johnson said in a different era about ladies preaching, the surprising thing about computers is not that they think less well than a man, but that they think at all. The early electronic computer did not have much going for it except a prodigious memory and some good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man's | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

After initial healing, there may be several sessions of relatively minor surgery to sculpt the ear closer to Brent's artistic standards. "The ear will never look absolutely real," he concedes, "but we can achieve an appearance so pleasing that the patient's psychological attitude is improved, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ears Made New | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

For the President, who promised during the campaign to make the White House an example of economy in Government, granting the raises made little political sense. After pleasing the public in January by banning limousines and door-to-door pickup service for his aides, he boosted his major assistants'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sweetening The Pot | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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