Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Racial policy in South Africa," as viewed by the present government, is the subject of tonight's panel in New Lecture Hall at 8:30 p.m. sponsored jointly by the Law School Forum and the U.N. Council. W. C. DuPlessis, Ambassador to the U.S., will speak, followed by a panel discussion led by three faculty members...
...elementary French courses," Frohock notes, "but we are far behind such colleges as Wesleyan and Columbia. They have many of these essential practice laboratories, we have only one which has just been started this year." Professors Henry Hatfield and Harry Levin are not quite so enthusiastic on the subject of tape recorders, the former remarking that "we haven't gone overboard on machines, but we are waiting to see how they work out. This is a pilot experiment." Geary and Frohock hope to institute the use of machines and modern methods into the intermediate courses within the near future...
This November's Advocate contains much that, like the season, is mature as well as sophisticated. Mature writing shows signs of careful reflection about the subject--sophisticated writing, merely about the style. Alone, the former will be dull at first reading, the latter perhaps not dull before the second or third reading. The two traits well combined make for what the uninitiated call good writing; they are best combined here in an excerpt from a picaresque novel by Richard Robinson, and in at least two poems, "Epithalamion, 4 A.M." by Stephen Sandy, and "To Speed and Greta" by Richard Sommer...
Since the retirement of Professor Merk in 1957, Harvard has been without a course in the history of the Westward Movement. Professor Merk's course on the subject was one of the more popular in the University despite the difficulty of the exams and the T, Th, S, 9 A.M. meeting...
...Department has made no apparent effort to reinstitute a course in Western history. This failing cannot be attributed to a lack of qualified teachers in this country; while it might be impossible to find a man as knowledgeable as Professor Merk, there are certainly men competent to teach the subject...