Word: frankforts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the week the French forces in the Ruhr extended the occupation to Langen and Eschborn. Their extension is in the Mayence district, not in the Ruhr, and is toward the great city of Frankfort. In the Ruhr the town of Hohen-Syburg was occupied. Alll these occupations were carried out as penalties for sabotage...
...things. Instead of the old, conventional picture, people saw only Mark Twain's students of Heidelberg, bloody and scarred with duelling. Reputations are more easily ruined than made, and German university life is recuperating slowly in foreign eyes. Yet the universities are determined to overcome prejudices. Leipzig, Heidelberg, Frankfort are again throwing open their doors with special summer lecture courses for Americans. This renewed opportunity for hearing great German lectuerers in literature, art music, and economics, together with all the advantages of a vacation in Germany, where the dollar still has magic power, is inducement enough in itself. And beyond...
...been announced that the University of Leipzig will give special courses of lectures during the summer for the benefit of American students and teachers. The success of these lectures in 1922 has made their repetition this year possible. In addition to those given at Leipzig, the Universities of Heidelberg. Frankfort on the Main, and Gothenburg, Sweden have planned similar courses...
...French journalist; Editor of "Le Popularie". Paris; and a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. He believes that the only practical plan for the reconstruction of the devastated areas lies in the collaboration of the peoples of France and Germany, acting on the plans outlined by the Frankfort Conference in April, 1922. He has already, in his tour of the United States, spoken in New York, and addressed a large audience in Symphony Hall last evening on "Europe after the World War". In this he showed the political and economic consequences of the Versailles Treaty, and discussed the French...
...while studying composition at the Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfort that Mr. Scott finding himself hampered by the limitations of musical conventions, threw himself into the ultra-modern school of composition. His works aim at the portrayal of "atmosphere," rather than definite beauty. His later works show beyond question a greater consideration for the hearer's pleasure than do some of his earlier ones. There are a good many pianoforte pieces which in name and style seem to fulfill the Debussy ideal of landscape painting in music. A number of his compositions will be played next week by the Boston Symphony...