Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lean, greying John Alden Carpenter, who has flirted gracefully with jazzy and other folk idioms (The Birthday of The Infanta, Krazy Kat, Skyscrapers, Adventures in a Perambulator), dislikes being called a "businessman-composer." Though he helped carry on the family ship chandler business, Composer Carpenter has been an earnest musician and a musical institution in Chicago for some 25 years. Last week he gave his native city the first big work he had composed since 1933, a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. His good friend, Zlatko Balokovic, Yugoslav violinist, played the Concerto. A friendly audience applauded. Respectful Chicago critics agreed...
Freshman track has its official beginning Monday with a meeting in the chess wing of the Union. Now that the football squad is out of the Cage, work will begin in earnest for the winter season...
...Lecture Hall is a problem not only in its name, for many, many students have pondered over the questions: "Just when is new old?" but it offers its architectural symmetry(?) as an obstacle to the earnest undergraduate. Approaching the west basement stairway from the corner where traffic is to be dredged, the student, in a hurry of course, finds two routes possible in order to get to the stairway...
Unveiled last week in Springfield, Mass., was a homebuilt projector which cost less than $12,000. It was built by able, earnest Frank Korkosz, technician of Springfield's Museum of Natural History. Not dumbbell-shaped but spherical, the Korkosz instrument projects on a 40-ft. (diameter) hemispherical ceiling 7,150 of the naked eye and borderline stars visible in every direction from earth. Astronomers did not quite share Mr. Korkosz' belief that his machine works as well or nearly as well as a Zeiss instrument but they seemed to feel that any reasonably good projector is better than...
Warning his audiences not to confuse anthropologists with philanthropists, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, went on to tell some 300 people gathered in the Herald-Traveler Auditorium for the opening of the Boston Book Fair, that the more he studied men, the more he liked his apes. Theodore Roosevelt '09, John P. Marquand '14 and Oliver La Farge '24 also appeared on the program and amused the audience with an hour of reminiscences...