Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports from college campuses indicate that the Oxford Oath not "to support the government of the United States in any war it may conduct" was somewhat more popular than it was in previous years. Tied up with the peace strike were protests against dictatorships and enemies of academic freedom, and resolutions for the outlawing of military training...
...What the conduct of privileged youth is today will largely, perhaps crucially, determine whether this hope goes glimmering in the wreck of the American order, or whether it shall be upheld by staunch proof that men of special education and technical competence recognize their obligations to society and will fulfill them as men, not as children. They can riot if they choose, but their own rioting sooner or later will be turned against them. They may have fun now at public expense if they will. But it is fun that tempts fate...
Donald Wyman, horticulturist at the Arnold Arboretum, will conduct a Field Class in the flowering plants of New England at the Arboretum on Saturdays from 10 to 12:00 o'clock during May. The class is expected to be especially interesting as the single flowering Japanese cherries are now in bloom at the Arboretum...
...season was to last ten weeks instead of the usual six, promised 21 operas in all. Though French and Italian operas predominate, two complete cycles of The Ring are to be sung and Wilhelm Furtwängler will conduct them both. Besides Beecham, conductors include such notables as Artur Rodzinski, John Barbirolli, Fritz Reiner. Francesco Sain. Eugene Goossens will conduct the world premiere of his Don Juan of Manara, an opera he wrote to the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. Lawrence Tibbett will have the title role, after making his European debut in Tosca...
According to the announcement from University Hall, the Faculty Council has voted that: "No holder of a scholarship, either stipendiary or honorary, may sell his course or reading notes; nor may he conduct a review for pay or be employed by a tutoring school without the written consent of the instructor in the course involved and the permission of the Scholarship Committee...