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...believe that the function of arts instruction in a liberal arts curriculum a not simply to supplement and support the academic disciplines. It is to introduce students to forms of learning and communication which have their own power, validity, and application, and which offer alternatives to the symbolic modes of words and figures and to the ways of knowing and feeling that they can convey...
...until the 1960s, though, did Harvard's attitude begin to change drastically. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts was built in 1963. The Music Department started a Ph.D. program in Composition to supplement the Musicology program...
...change? One source says that payment of moving expenses might be challenged under a law that bans any supplement to the salaries of Government employees from private sources, but payment of consulting fees raised no such problem. Other sources argue that reimbursement of moving expenses was legal, but the resources of the funds could have been strained if many other officials demanded the same perk...
DIED. Arthur H. ("Red") Motley, 83, publisher-president responsible for making Parade magazine the largest and most profitable of the national Sunday supplements; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. A garrulous onetime salesman of zithers and Fuller brushes, he became boss of the five-year-old, money-losing supplement in 1946. By pitching it to newspaper markets in the burgeoning suburbs, he increased its circulation from 2 million to 19 million, under various owners, until his retirement...
...prospect of prolonged reliance on the reserve manpower pool prompted new thinking in Israel about ways to supplement the labor effort, and "Volunteers for Israel" has been one of the more successful initiatives taken to address the problem...