Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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nounced the beginning of work on a manual about Southeast American plants. This sort of project--which will take ten years despite the Herbarium's facilities--would have been nearly impossible with former equipment...
...memory instead of the individual thinking needed in a new democracy. The students are young, too, entering college at about age 15. Emerging from the universities with one or more degrees, most students face almost certain unemployment, for "white collar" jobs are scarce and few are willing to accept manual work...
Some students are doing social work, but traditional aversion to manual labor among the "middle class," as well as the students' own economic conditions, keep most from going out to the villages or to city slum areas. A few notable exceptions exist, such as the college boys who have "adopted" a nearby village and are helping to build a new road. A girls' college, too, distributes milk to village children. But on the whole, voluntary constructive work, despite the role it played in Gandhi's philosophy, is not a part of the attitude of India's students...
Executive Order. The Ohio-born or ganist and his organ arrived at West Point simultaneously in 1911. The instrument was a three-manual affair that cost $11,500. It was a fine organ for its day, but before long, Fritz Mayer began to hanker for new tone colors and started a drive to get new stops. Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops-a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica...
...expanding organ had more stops than the console could handle easily, and a new, four-manual console was installed. The chapel organ became one of West Point's points of interest. Organist Mayer's baby kept on growing. Thousands of pipes were crowded into the organ lofts, and the three basement rooms became filled with the complex wind and control machinery, e.g., five electric motors, coupler relays, etc. Besides the ordinary stops, Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console...