Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clark University, Worcester, Mass...
...evangel ists," was on the way from Co lumbia, Ga., to Chicago, "on the last legs of a globe-girdling tour during which he has converted more than 100,000 men and wo men." He will open the three-day golden jubilee of his conversion with a mass meeting at the staid First Congregational Church in Oak Park, Ill., where the Rev. William E. Barton, father of advertising man Bruce Barton, had long been pastor. Gypsy Smith has a son, Gypsy Jr., who is also saving souls...
With the closing of the Beethoven Centenary Festival last night, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society completed the triumph achieved in the Mass by an excellent presentation of the stirring chorus in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. The chorus, somewhat smaller than that which took part in the Mass sang the difficult musical setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, with the finest of technique and intelligence of expression which might have been expected from the work which this admirably trained group had done earlier in the week. As always much honor must...
...Palmer has performed a highly valuable service. He has clarified the whole issue so far as the movement represented by Leland Stanford and Johns Hopkins is concerned. He has overlooked its high usefulness as a weapon for the protection of the arts college and the "scholarly amateur" from a mass of applicants who are not yet fitted for higher "cultural" education and who, by their very presence inevitably lower standards and contribute to that mass production which every enlightened educational leader is trying to get away from today...
...hear them praise his music as "greatest in England since Purcell [17th Cen-tury]" and even "ranking with the greatest of all time." He is Frederick Delius, onetime Florida orange-planter, onetime music teacher in Danville, Va. He wrote "Sea Drift" to Walt Whitman's words. He wrote "Mass of Life" and "Appalachia." Later he set Poet James Elroy Flecker's Hassan to music and the splendors of "The Golden Road to Samarkand" filled the Haymarket Theatre for months on end. Sometimes he hears great orchestras playing his music-over the radio. Mostly he lies lonely, stricken...