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...latter course demands over-whelming ability. Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein have tried it, but opinions vary on the quality and importance of their most serious works; Archibald Davison gave up composing entirely for education. Such men are often rewarded--and rightly so--with greater fame and financial security than their more esoteric colleagues, but in the process they may easily draw professional jealousy...
...awarded plaques--"YAF Nation---to 12 individuals and groups. included Russell Kirk, teacher and of The Conservative Mind: The public of china, represented by its Mr. George K. C. Yeh: Taylor a novelist: the House on Un-American Activities; the -Edison Company; Lewis L. Strauss, presented by Archibald B. Roosevelt '17. The College delegation to the rally-- members of the Harvard Young publican Club--was headed by Howard Phillips '62, a member of YAF's Nation. Board of Directors. Proceedings have started to establish a YAF chapter the University, according to Phillips...
...rather, the imaginative man who sees things as they really are.... The imaginative man looks around and behind the self-evident facts, seeing them in their total setting, in all their implications: and in the end I am backing him, and not the realist, to come upon the truth." ARCHIBALD T. DAVISON...
...idealist is always prey to self compromise, dictatorial methods, and tactlessness. Archibald T. Davison, the reformer of American musical education, who died February 6, avoided these pitfalls, for he possessed shrewd but ever-tactful skill; a desire to lead men, not force them; and as well an uncompromising idealism...
...music he maintained that only the best will fulfill the purpose of music, whether it be an offering of beauty to God or purely an appreciation of that beauty. To defend his ideals, to strive toward their achievement and to effect them with discrimination--these were the accomplishments of Archibald Davison...