Word: carman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when NSSFNS (pronounced "./Ves-jfeness") began ferreting out hidden talents such as LaMar's, Negroes accounted for only one-tenth of 1% of the students in interracial colleges. To three prominent New Yorkers-Dean Harry Carman of Columbia College, Mrs. Felice Schwartz, and Pastor James H. Robinson of the Church of the Master-this seemed not only an injustice but a waste of brainpower. Though too many boys and girls of all races were missing their chance for a full education because of poverty or bad training, the largest group affected was the Negroes. Deciding to go to the rescue...
Heartz' harpsichord playing had some rhythmic tentativeness and wrong notes, but was adequate on the whole. As soloist he played Byrd's showy Praeludium and jaunty variations on the folk tune The Carman's Whistle. But most intriguing was Hugh Aston's Hornepype, taken from the earliest source of English harpsichord music; this too was a set of variations--not on a tune, but rather on a repeated bass pattern. It is striking for its period in its unusual length, and in the fact that it has an ever-increasing intensity whereas most Renaissance pieces preserve their initial level throughout...
...clock: --For those with an unusual interest in the November elections, History 167, American Labor Since the Civil War, will open in Harvard 2 under the aegis of Professor Carman of Columbia...
...Harry J. Carman, retired Moore Professor of American History at Columbia University and author of "A History of the American People" with his former colleague, Harold C. Syrett, will give the course on a one-year appointment, Gilmore said. He succeeds Kenneth Stampp, professor of History at the University of California...
With such samples of success, the New York and Whitney Foundations hope to inspire the hiring of other retired professors. The Whitney Foundation has a list of 350 scholars willing and able to return to work. All in all, says former Columbia College Dean Harry J. Carman, chairman of the foundation's Division of Humanities, it is quite a reservoir-"which too often goes unused...