Word: member
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed visiting member of the University's new Graduate Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Fred N. Dickerman, aeronautical engineer, will lecture on practical airplane design at the Graduate School of Engineering this year, it was announced yesterday...
Certainly a member of the Harvard teaching staff should know that experience is the greatest teacher. But it is evident that Professor McLaughlin learned little from that most bitter lesson, the World War. Indeed, he rushes blindly into the most high-flown assumptions, such as the belief that truth travels with the British navy. Before making such indiscreet statements, he might well study the historical background of this nation, and re-examine the problems of today in its light. He would then find that the propagandists of the last war wrote better than they knew, that the only war this...
...French school. His ruggedness does not fit in with the extreme subtlety and delicacy of composers like Debussy. Ravel, and even Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music of the East to which he was subjected in his youth...
...Simon & Schuster rule, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock's Men of Music, was deliberately modeled on a previous success,Thomas Craven's Men of Art. To write it, the publishers hired no established bigwig of professional music criticism, but a couple of relative unknowns, one a member of their own editorial staff. Result: Men of Music avoids the pious saws and muddy technical jargon of conventional musical biography, describes racily and well the flights and foibles of those posey, neurotic, childlike, hardheaded geniuses who wrote the world's great symphonies and operas...
...long been associated with the study of American history and culture. Before becoming director of the Harvard Press in 1936. Malone was editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, and prior to that, professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has also been a member of the faculty and Sterling Fellow at Yale, from which he holds three degrees...