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...headed by Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt had the idea of organizing a State Symphony,† one which would visit and be backed by several communities. They approached Composer Lamar Stringfield, a native Carolinian flautist teaching in the University music department. Among his teachers were Georges Barrere and Henry Hadley (conducting). The North Carolina sponsors asked Mr. Stringfield to assemble an orchestra, conduct an experimental concert at Chapel Hill...
...note--It was felt that in order to establish Mr. Hadley's complete disinterestedness the reader should have some knowledge of the qualifications peculiarly fitting him to be the author of his book, quoted above. This fragmentary biography is taken from the American...
...Hadley, Edwin Marshall--b. Peoria, Ill. Oct. 14, 1872, eighth in lineal descent from Edward Fitz Randolph, from Nottinghamshire to N. E. 1630. With others organized the Dudley Coffee Co. (importers) and the Ceylon Planters Tea Co. (and many others) One of organizers Ill. Reserve Militia. Chicago Boy Scout Committeeman. Winner many athletic trophies. Contbr, to mags., orator, after dinner speaker. Republican. Reformed Episcopalian...
...America is seriously threatened. The greatest danger arises from the joining of the forces of the gutter Anarchists with the so-called intelligentsia in our educational institutions." With this ringing challenge, Edwin Marshall Hadley, casts the gauntlet at the feet of American education and its brothers-in-crime, The Federation of Churches, the League of Nations, Soviet Russia, Albert Einstein, and the Harvard Liberal Club. From the excerpts, relating to the American College, from his book, T. N. T., and quoted elsewere in these columns, it is possible to sample the vitriol with which Mr. Hadley would fortify every good...
...tedium of depression and that irritating Eastern imbroglio. This is after all "that best of all possible worlds" in which everything is designed to a certain end. Let T. N. T. be the cathartic necessary to purge the American system, for, as Professor Babbitt would have it, Mr. Hadley has "poured his baby out with the bath...