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Harvard will donate 95 cents for each student who fasts, Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of Food Services, said yesterday...
Like most other schools, Wellesley relies on student fees and outside grants and donations. But the inflation rate is about one per cent higher than the tuition increase and Wellesley administrators interviewed yesterday differed on whether this gap will increase the college's dependency on outside income...
...HARVARD student can act, dance, sing, or--except in rare instances--perform on his musical instrument--for credit. More importantly, only in recent years have limited numbers of students gained the privilege of learning from teachers who are experienced performers...
Traditionally, Harvard has never felt the need for performing professors, so assessing them was not a problem. In recent years, however, student pressure and a greater national enthusiasm for the performing arts has softened that stance. Still, President Bok firmly asserts that Harvard will not be transformed into a school that trains professional artists; and he is right to do so. Transforming Harvard into a conservatory or a professional arts school would swing the emphasis on performing art too far in the opposite direction, away from Harvard's commitment to a complete liberal arts education...
...what of the student whose talent does not put him in the top ranks of artistic performers? There must be classes that incorporate performing (for credit) for him as well. Students want less and less to work for non-credit courses; in the interest of their education, they must somehow be accomodated. Exposure to performing--to creating and to expressing--is nearly as essential to the "liberal arts education" as is the exposure to analyzing and to critiquing, which is more heavily stressed in today's curriculum. Bok and many faculty members recognize this need and are working within time...