Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philanthropic work of the Association is done largely through the medium of the Social Service Committee. This is composed--as are all other Phillips Brooks House Association committees--of students, and serves as a sort of clearing house for work of this sort. This year one hundred and sixty-one men are engaged in part time volunteer activities which vary from Probation Court work to Sunday School teaching. By far the greater part of the service is in the leadership of Boys' Clubs in Cambridge and Boston. Every year hundreds of Harvard men are leaving their stamp upon the lives...
Cecile Sorel, who off the stage is the Madame la Countess de Segur, speaks very little English and the conversation was carried on through the medium of her secretary...
Among musicians it is generally agreed that string chamber music is the highest, purest medium of expression. The wealthy patrons of art have taken heed: Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, James P. Warburg, Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist. So, in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall, last week, a new quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil...
Margery, Boston's most talented medium, has let it be known that she has discovered finger prints of "Walter", her spirit control. Although "Walter" died without leaving any finger prints to use as comparison the marks are undoubtedly authentic, according to Dr. Crandon, the husband of the psychic lady. At the same time, he says, was heard the ticking of a celestial clock, and perfume, from heavenly sources, was smelt...
Standing firmly, foursquare, on the theory that English is the artistic medium for opera in the U. S. the Chicago Opera Company presented earlier this season Charles Wakefield Cadman's Witch of Salem, a U. S. opera sung in English (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...