Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dinks" are one symptom of an acute childishness that affects the student body. These inane freshman beanies do not speak well for a University with a public credo of individualism and dignity. Hypocrisy shows forth in different attitudes toward this custom. Dean Peters describes the requirement--all freshmen must wear dinks--as a sort of harmless, inoffensive jest which is not strictly enforced. Yet freshmen will attest to the violence of the rule's administrators, and only brave or foolish men will defy the kangaroo court which orders them to display their dinks and buttons...
...this is small comfort to the other members of the "nuclear club." And it is only a matter of time before the Soviet Union runs out of concessions which would hinder Soviet expansion southward. Khrushchev has announced that Russia is the greatest power on earth--but China's actions speak louder than words...
...long-range doubts about his continued work in music at the University. "I am a little cautious of the academic world in certain respects, and I am not convinced this is the best place for a performing musician." Contemporary composers should come to the University to play and speak with undergraduates "or else the entire musical community cannot flourish," Senturia recommends. Music at Harvard for him thus does not stop with the HRO; it is a living, all-important concern which extends far beyond his three rehearsals per week and his teaching in Music 253, formerly taught by Walter Piston...
...California at Los Angeles, where I taught for three years, and then I became Tagore Professor of Law in India, at Calcutta University. Then, the Law School was good enough to offer me my quarters here. I am on a grant-in-aid that enables me to write and speak...
...last year, there is little such feeling among students here. Membership will not be a cure-all for that apathy, deplorable as it may be. There is no assurance that the pontifications of Harvard delegates to the NSA conferences truly represent the opinion of the student body; they must speak for themselves since apathy prevents expression of most views on the value of the Association. When the disadvantage of personal representation is weighed against the supposed advantage of membership in a non-representative group, the decision is clear: Harvard should not rejoin...