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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makes me doubt that the Paine Hall group really represented the sentiments of a small, vocal group trying to intimidate the faculty. It should have been clear after the first Faculty meeting at Memorial Hall that some mechanism for large-scale student-faculty communication was necessary. Therefore, I cannot understand why the administration scheduled the Lowell Lecture Hall debate for the day after the Faculty meeting Dec. 12, which clearly robbed students--not just SDS, but pro-ROTC people as well as those with positions in between--of finding out where significant numbers of Faculty members stood, and what proposals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFENSE OF THE SIT-IN | 1/8/1969 | See Source »

MUSIC 51 is run on one apparent principle: that practical facility is as important as theory. Each student accordingly has two small keyboard sections after the Monday lecture. Miss Vosgerchian believes that to "understand" a technique of harmony means little. The mind and ear must be drilled until they can handle it facilely. Only then is a student inclined not to settle for the first harmonization he thinks of. He will be able to choose the best of several...

Author: By Ruth Glushien, | Title: Luise Vosgerchian | 1/8/1969 | See Source »

...throughout the U.S. into a computer network for exchanging information. Says H. Monty Osteen, one of the executives who helped develop the system: "To a large degree, management has been reluctant to use computers as anything more than big adding machines. This has been because management generally does not understand computers. We have adapted the computer to bank management-not bank management to the computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Your Friendly Computer | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...produced a slender, acid-infused account of the rise of the nonviolent yippies. The book trips along almost gaily on currents of aphorism and imagination. Between its often outrageous put-ons and put-downs lies much that is of significance to American youth-and those adults who would understand the radical young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul on Acid | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...Faculty is so large and complex, Galbraith said, that a governing board of businessmen cannot possibly understand it. The Corporation no longer controls the distribution of funds. Instead, professors and deans apply directly to the federal government and to foundations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. K. Galbraith Attacks Harvard, Calls Structure an Anachronism | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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