Radcliffe College - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Wolfgang Amadaeus Mozart left behind some SO fragments of his compositions — unfinished pieces of all kinds. Three unfinished compositions were chosen: the Requiem (K. 626), a Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra (K. 31Sf), and a Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (K. 516c). The stylistic framework of each of these pieces, as svell as other Mozart essays of the same genre, was carefully analyzed. A completion was then written for each, attempting to preserve the original flavor of the compositions. Franz Sussmayr, a student of Mozart, had already completed the Requiem, but the thesis involved addition of a fugue to one portion of the piece. All three compositions, together with the completions, were performed in May. — Robert O. Levin

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 The ghetto unrest which frightens the liberal community into making concessions to Black Poweritos also feeds tendencies which both undermine liberal tolerance and lead in the direction of more repressive responses to ghetto violence. Factors contrary to liberal restraint are already present within the ghetto system; forces arc set in motion which may circumscribe liberals' ability to respond to ghetto violence in a concessive way. However, liberals themselves are of two minds about violence. A limited amount of violence can be interpreted as a sympton of very real underlying social problems. But there is a threshold beyond which symptoms of social problems become a lack of acceptance of the ground rules of liberal society. Beyond a certain point, acts of violence become untenable violations of the law, which must be met by force . . . The system is predisposes! toward a repressive response to racial violence and unrest. — Barbara Fields 25

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A photolormer function generator is a means of converting graphical information into an electrical signal. Thi; is useful when electrical signals of peculiar waveforms are desired, since standard function generators produce only a poor variety of waveforms. For example, odd waveforms are required for analog computer simulation of a flood control system, e.g. the irregular and empirical waveform representing rainfall over a period of time. This could be represented in a graph, however, and the photoformer could produce the appropriate voltage from the resulting graph. — Charles S, Peskin 27