Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention today, for there are opportunities to enjoy demonstrations of both the theory and the practice. The scientific explanation of music will be made available when Professor Spaulding gives the first of a series of lectures on "Sound and its Relation to Music" at 4 o'clock in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room 1, on the subject of "Vibrations". Having mastered the factors that distinguish symphony concerts from the more subtle music of the sounds emitted by, say, the Harvard Square traffic, the musically inclined can obtain a practical exposition of the art by attending the first of the Whiting...
Score--Harvard 1932, 7; Yale 1932, 6. Touchdowns--Gilligan, Jones. Points after touchdown--White. Referee--T. A. Scanlon, Fordham. Umpire--W. S. McCannell, Tufts. Linesman--L. O. Kirksberger, Washington and Jefferson. Field Judge--H. E. Vansurdam, Wesleyan. Time--15-minute quarters...
...evening after Virginia had gone Republican, students of the University of Virginia burned an effigy of "Religious Intolerance." They creped their campus statue of Thomas Jefferson and inscribed...
Factions. At least one voice was raised to urge that Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned out by a chorus of other voices. Bishop James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem...
...this morning on "Benjamin Franklin." The first few strenuous years of the nations history brought forth many great men but Franklin is in many ways the most interesting of all. Washington still exists for most people as an idealized and almost superhuman character; Hamilton seems aristocratic and haughty and Jefferson is chiefly associated nowadays with various obscure principles dealing with "states rights". But what we know of Franklin from the homely wisdom of his Almanac; the curiosity that led him to make an experiment with lightning and kites that later electrocuted and imitator of it and the stories...