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Since William Whiting "the Widow" Nolen '84 started his Manter Hall School in 1886, the extent and influence of the tutoring schools have gradually grown. According to the Student Council report, they have "grown out of their proper place" to a degree unique in American universities...
...rapid succession came Wolff's and Parker-Cramer, who now compete for leadership in the field of widely advertised mass reviews. In 1936 Fairfax Hall became important in the prepared notes and "trot" field. The latest school is that established in 1937 by Charles Marshall Underwood...
...turn toward chamber music is an interesting element of modern times, and the place of Paul Hindemith, who is playing tomorrow night in Paine Hall, is at the head of this movement. He represents a general turn from the grandiose conception of music and musicians nurtured in the romantic era. This change of attitude consists of a shift of emphasis from the idea of an artist as a man removed from the ordinary course of life by his inspiration and genius to the conception of an artist as an excellent workman--one who intends his product for use in every...
...windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among U. S. political reformers, won the Democratic nomination for Governor after an eight-day fight; at the State House in Frankfort eight months later he was shot...
...Western culture must be carried-on by America after the next war," Bertrand Russell, world-renowned author and philosopher, said when interviewed last night. Russell, who addressed the Ford Hall Forum yesterday, predicted that the toll of another world war would be so great that "Europe will no longer count in civilization...