Word: english
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of the English Folk Dance Society as announced for tomorrow evening includes the country. Morris, and sword dances, to be presented exactly as they have always been given by the English people...
...connection with the appearance of the Society in Boston, the Treasure Room in Widener is displaying manuscripts of early English music. One composition, a publication of 1593, is called "The Seventh Day--A Cantata", based on "Paradise Lost". Some love songs of 1688 bearing the dedication "to her Grace the Duchess of Queensberry", are also being shown. This exhibit will continue throughout the stay of the English Folk Dance Society in Boston...
...English Folk Dance Society which is to present old English dances for a Bostonian, audience tomorrow night exemplifies once again the present day tendency to attempt to preserve the half-forgotten practices of the past. Unfortunately, most of these movements get started too late to save many of the most interesting examples of former arts, but the present society has had the great advantage of coming into existence before folk dancing was added to the already too long list of lost arts...
This revival along with many others such as the English Madrigal Singers and the numerous societies for the restoration of buildings of architectural and historical interest, shows to what proportions the enthusiasm for the past has grown. Nor is this movement confined only to research in the work of former times. Frequently, in the last few years, organizations have been founded to preserve the characteristic art of the present time...
President Lowell has often pointed out how different is the attitude of American society from that of English society toward the achievements of its young men. An English university man is quite as proud when his son or brother or friend gets a "first" (i.e. our summa cum laude) as when he rows in the boat or plays on the team. Now that our class is fifty years out, we have attained this catholicity. The Housing Plan and all that it implies will promote, we hope and believe, something of the same sort for our young men and their parents...