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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Oxford University Press and England's Columbia Graphophone Co. planned a joint history of music, stamped on records. Edited by the noted English music historian and lexicographer, Percy Scholes (TIME, Dec. 12), this history was to consist of short recorded examples of music typical of all periods from the loth Century to the present. The Columbia History's fifth and last volume gives a taste and a sniff of the 20th Century's principal musical styles, ranges from the romantic Schwarmerei of Richard Strauss and Mahler to the quarter-tone caterwauling of Kulturbolschewik Alois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

According to Quimby who made the trip last year with James H. Gilbert '40, the duties of the two this summer will consist mainly of "outdoor labor," designed both to benefit the boys and to do service to the mission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brooks House Grenfell Mission Group Selects Two for Labrador Trip | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King-Cog | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...formal debate will consist of two eight-minute speeches, each followed by ten minutes of cross-questioning, and two five-minute rebuttals and summaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIMINATION OF TUTORING SCHOOLS DEBATED TONIGHT | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

Almost equally bad are the mass reviews upon which the businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFINITIONS | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

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