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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student goes on with more advanced courses. Both Coon and Tozzer, while interesting and well-organized lecturers and an expert ethnographer and archeologist respectively, tend to talk from the point of view of their advanced courses and seem to assume the student is going on with them. The lack of a syllabus in 1a leads to confusion about what the course is supposed to cover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

...courses 16 and 16a, on Social Psychology, Professor Allport will be aided by Professor Jenness of the University of Nebraska. The material is valuable for the special field of that title, but the course was criticized for its lack of practical application...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Articles on Fields of Concentration | 5/27/1938 | See Source »

...deplored the lack of accurate information about White Spain in the American press. He said that is trying to "neutralize" Red propaganda from the other side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORBES BACKS FRANCO IN SPANISH STRUGGLE | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...people are contented and peaceful. The seem to have plenty of money, food, and work. The lack of excitement amazed me. Franco has increased wages, and built slum clearance projects. I personally saw men being tried according to established judicial procedure," stated Forbes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORBES BACKS FRANCO IN SPANISH STRUGGLE | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

Principal reasons for the dearth of famous U. S.-born maestros have been: 1) a lack of places where the young U. S. conductor can cut his teeth; 2) snobbishness. In Germany, where conducting is as specialized a profession as brain surgery, conductors are systematically trained and systematically advanced in their careers. The neophyte, having mastered several musical instruments and taken a complete course in musical composition, enters a conductors' class at the konservatorium, where he studies the symphonic and operatic classics and learns how to shake a stick at an orchestra. Then he graduates. But that is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U.S. Conductors | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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