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...feeling that their education is not strictly circumscribed by the language of the Course Catalogue. But Chalmers' suggestion would affect only a handful of students with well-developed interests. A more serious problem faced by many more students is the barriers to experimenting with interests they may have in unfamiliar areas. The pass-fail proposal--for which departments are now writing the rules--is one small step to meet the problem. It would allow students to take one course each year on a pass-fail basis--if the department or the instructor doesn't object...
Hunched at the eyepiece of his telescope early in the morning of December 29 in the Japanese city of Hamamatsu, Kaoru Ikeya suddenly grew tense. He had spotted an unfamiliar blob of light in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Five minutes later, 240 miles away in Kochi, Tsutomu Seki located the same strange object. Both checked their star maps, then hurriedly mounted their bicycles and pedaled furiously to the nearest telegraph office. There they dispatched the word to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Incredibly, the same two amateur astronomers who had independently but almost simultaneously discovered 1965's famous and brilliant...
...sure sign of musical anarchy if everything in a composition comes out sounding the same. This is especially if the music is new and unfamiliar. But Schuller's Bagaetelles are full of contrasts--dynamic, textural, rhythmic--and the orchestra brought them out vividly and strikingly. Here the orchestra received a bit of unplanned assistance from the Cambridge Fire Department. At the end of the Third Bagatelle, the rising wail of the fire siren coincided exactly with the solo 'cello's ascending glissando. It was probably the only time 'cellist Martha Babcock smiled during a concert...
...UNFAMILIAR visitor would say this has been A Typical New England Autumn At Harvard College except, perhaps, for the good weather. The leaves have turned yellow, brown, and red. The football team has been winning without the the aid of aerodynamics. And nobody has studied much of anything...
...State Department defended the Administration's policies-Under Secretary Nicholas Katzenbach in a speech at Connecticut's Fairfield University and Under Secretary for Political Affairs Eugene V. Rostow during a regional foreign-policy conference in Lawrence, Kans. Even Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman ventured into the relatively unfamiliar field of foreign policy. In Syracuse, he declared that Asian leaders "are desperately concerned over the Chinese threat" and "almost without exception back what we are doing in Viet...