Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five men elected to the Album Committee have charge of preparing the only complete written college record of their class. They are Charles King Howard, football manager in his Freshman year; William Keblinger Wyant, editor of the CRIMSON, Robert Lincoln Cummings, Jr., and William Henry Lewis, Jr., editors of the Lampoon; and Hugh Mason Wade, retiring president of the Advocate...
...Robert Lincoln Cummings...
...stag. Preceding the dance members of the House will be allowed to eat with their partners in the House dining room. The patronesses for the affair are: Mrs. Z. B. Adams, Mrs. Robert Saltonstall, Mrs. John P. Bowditch, Mrs. R. I. Cummings, Mrs. H. W. Palmer, and Mrs. Alexander Lincoln...
Eight years ago there were two Harvard freshmen who used to stay up nights to moon over ballet. One was short, one was tall but both were rich. Edward M. M. Warburg was Banker Felix Warburg's son. Lincoln Kirstein's father ran Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard Warburg and Kirstein started a Society for Contemporary Art. After graduation their violent interest in Modern Art continued. Last winter they finally fulfilled their youthful ambition by founding the School of American Ballet...
Alma Mater had a worthy performance. All the dancers made sure, swift pictures, designed by George Balanchine, the crack Russian choreographer whom the young sponsors imported. But critical members of the Hartford audience agreed that Edward Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein needed more time to perfect their dream of a perfect ballet. Undistinguished dancers can frolic in a burlesque like Alma Mater. But earlier in the same evening a more conventional and exacting Mozartiana made it apparent that a year is not long enough to build up a technic comparable to that of the long-trained Russians...