Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the desire for education became manifest native schools sprang up, but were still incapable of filling the need. In time American students conceived the idea of building colleges in the East in which the need of the people for education might be met and in which the English language might be taught and disseminated...
...combination of an exceptional lecturer, an exceptional subject and an exceptional tradition is not one that is met every day, and it is enough to take me to two English lectures in succession this morning. Professor Murray at 12 o'clock in Harvard 3 will begin the series of five or six lectures which he annually devotes in his course on the English drama to Ben Jonson...
...Glee Clubs of America* for a third annual concert. Two years ago 540 of them had sung together at Carnegie Hall; found Carnegie Hall too small for glee club enthusiasts. Last year 856 of them had sung at the Metropolitan Opera House; found it too small. Last week they met at the 71st Regiment Armory, 11,000 capacity; found it a happier choice...
...morning they had met in the Metropolitan Auditorium for competition. Each club sang a capella, a song of their own selection, and a prize song, Henschel's "Morning Hymn." Judges Walter Henry Hall, professor of Church and Choral Music at Columbia University, Dr. Holies Daun, head of the department of musical educa-at New York University, and H. O. Osgood, associate editor of the Musical Courier put their heads together, added up points given on interpretation, ensemble, pitch, tone and diction, found that the Concordia Society of Wilkesbarre, Pa., under the direction of Professor Adolph Hanson had won first place...
...Great Gatsby. Owen Davis has taken the most recent and probably the best novel of the facile F. Scott Fitzgerald and made it into a play of considerable amusement and some excellence. The hero, who met the girl in a training camp and tried after the War to make himself a gentleman in an erratically momentous manner, is well played by James Rennie. In case you have not read the novel, Mr. Rennie impersonates a Long Island resident of no background, much money and a dubious method of getting it. Considerably in his way is the girl's husband, whose...