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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This lumping of three vigorous fields has apparently left a lot of people with the idea that not everybody in Social Relations knows what his co-workers are talking about. Two weeks ago, Professor Talcott Parsons, who runs Harvard's department, got a good chance to check up. He was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soc Rel Ties In | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

The audience, which was made up largely of faculty members and their wives, heard Charles Munch conducting the orchestra for the first time in this area. When the concert was over the listeners rose to give the conductor a standing ovation, something almost unheard of for Harvard.

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

It is unfortunate that Walter Piston's Second Suite did not go over better than it did. It is a difficult piece both to play and understand. The orchestra certainly did its part in the performance, but the audience sat on its hands until the composer went up to the...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

That, at least, is the observation of Robert A. Dennison '50 after a season spent piloting jalopies around a West Peabody track. However, it isn't what induced him to take up jalopies as a pastime. He started going to the races during the summer but found it was getting...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

Jalopy racing is not to be confused with stock car racing. The chief difference between them is that in stock car competition a driver can "soup up" his engine or install a racing engine, while the jalopy man man can only make sure that his engine is in perfect working...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

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