Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's fast-improving tennis team moved two steps closer to a share of the EITA title last weekend with easy home victories over both Cornell and Army. But the squad faces perhaps its last serious challenge for that title today at Annapolis in an improved Navy squad...
Acting Dean Mason, chairman of the Committee on Educational Policy, said that the proposal "would involve a very serious change in what the Faculty considers a proper program for undergraduates." He also said that no action would be taken this spring because "the CEP would want a longer time to deliberate on the issue...
...every school is eager for such a pragmatic approach. Says Assistant History Professor John Willis, a member of the faculty-student committee now making final plans for an Afro-American studies department at the University of Wisconsin: "Students have asked for an action-oriented program while serious academicians want a department oriented toward scholarship." Though Willis himself is black, he goes along with the professors because "I'm an academic Tom-I can see the quality angle...
Human Limitation. As obvious as this fact may be, says Tichauer, industrial society has long overlooked it. Basic tools were reproduced in traditional shapes mainly out of habit. Well into the 20th century, more complicated machines were designed without any serious consideration for the limitations of their human operators-in part, at least, because scarcely anyone understood what those limitations were. Biomechanics, Tichauer notes with satisfaction, is beginning to change all that...
...light-hearted series of variations on the old nursery rhyme that begins, "Monday's child is fair of face." Wednesday's child, who is "full of woe," is portrayed by Svetlana Beriosova as a studiously mournful, black-clad wraith, pursued by a clutching quartet of mottled, mock-serious snakes. Friday's children love and give-to each other-in the explicitly sexual writhings of Rudolf Nureyev and Antoinette Sibley. The hard-working Saturday kids are a vivacious corps of high-leaping male dance students finally practiced into exhaustion by a starchy, cane-wielding sergeant major...