Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present requirements are in line with those of many universities; instituting a math requirement would assume that Harvard's influence in elevating high-school standards is quite significant. Such an assumption does not seem well-grounded; for the schools which would respond by directing their college prospects to take the courses Harvard demands are probably those schools who now teach the most mathematics anyway. But the rural, Western and Southern schools which offer only a curricular minimum are unlikely to change to meet Harvard's demands. If Harvard should impose a math requirement, it would cut itself off from much...
...film is used to introduce a problem or situation which the students then discuss. "We try to take the students as close to actual reality as we can," says George W. Gibson '31, director of the division...
...operations of the Dining Hall Department alone illustrate a striking degree of coordination brought by years of experience. Take the Central Kitchen as an example. Serving nearly 6,000 meals per day, the Central Kitchen, jammed under Kirkland House, is a veritable beehive of activity from 1 a.m.--when baking of breakfast rolls begins--until well into the evening with the serving of dinner...
...responsible for too large a number of undergraduates, Monro asserted that moving graduate students into the Houses would "add rent-payers without increasing the Masters' burdens." Monro also pointed out that many graduate students who attended Harvard College have friends in the Houses and might want to take part in the plan...
...give about such a work, except that it confirmed the impression of force and individuality made by Rzewski's earlier pieces last year. William Wilder's Duo for String Quartet, another example of minimal performance instructions did not quite come off, perhaps because the players did not take full advantage of the near-complete rhythmical freedom they were given. John Cage's Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard, which employs only eleven sounds, turned out to be a rather lame divertimento, though several Islamic touches near the end provoked cautious amusement...