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Senior Bobby Carr, who set a new single-season scoring record for Harvard defensemen with 28 points, captured berths on both the All-Ivy and All-Eastern second teams. He also received the John Tudor Memorial Cup as Harvard's most valuable player...
Started in response to student protests about the impersonality of the multiversity, the Tussman program took 150 freshmen volunteers and isolated them from the rest of the school for two years in a neo-Tudor-style fraternity house. There Tussman, four professors (one each from law, mathematics, political science and poetry) and five graduate assistants led a complete "intellectual immersion." Based loosely on a great-books-oriented program that Tussman studied under Wisconsin's late Alexander Meiklejohn, the first year concentrated on such Greek writers as Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton...
...White House Secretary to President Theodore Roosevelt, Loeb lives a long way from his newspaper office, in a neo-Tudor mansion on a 90-acre estate in Prides Crossing, Mass. He is well liked by his employes, was one of the first U.S. publishers to establish a profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the Union Leader does a commendable job of reporting state politics and carries as much national and international news as most papers its size. But all too often news stories turn out to be only slightly disguised Loeb opinions. ASKS U.S. BELLY CRAWL bawled the banner headline over...
...Woods. What made Guest's predicament all the more painful was that to keep current he had already taken out $265,000 in bank loans, plus another $105,000 against his life insurance, and put up for sale several paintings, including Moro's Mary Tudor. Once a federal court ruled last March that Guest alone was responsible for Aerovias' bad debts, it was only a question of time before a federal marshal showed up at the Guests' Long Island estate. In August, he started tagging their paintings and objets d'art. Winston Guest went...
Squawking Steinway. Columbia's package concentrates chiefly on the broad spectrum of experimentation, most of it stemming from Webern's later pointillistic serialism and further shaped by the development of electronic sound producing and reproducing equipment. John Cage's Variations II required Pianist David Tudor to clip microphones at various points on his Steinway and to overtune them so that the amplifier-produced squawl and squawk become part of the composition; in Mikrophonie I. Karlheinz Stockhausen attached two microphones to an oversized gong, which was then hit with a variety of materials to produce a 26-minute...