Word: miller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Perry Miller is giving a Humanities Course called Classics of the Christian Tradition. Last year, I gather, he used a class-participation technique in this course. He frequently got to his points via answers to questions he threw at students chosen from his little list. This system forced the students to keep up with their work, which bothered many of them. The real trouble with the method, however, is that it makes students listen to each other, which is always dull, when they could be listening to Professor Miller, which is often fascinating and--this I judge...
Preview highlights of the customs which will be passed along to the new 'Cliffedwellers include word that Barnard Hall residents serenade President Jordan and Deans Kerby-Miller and Sherman with Christmas carols and walked off with last spring's song contest with the entry, "Wellesley Has A Muddy Lake...
...Cocksure little Al Trace was packing a spot where anyone had to be both good and loud to blow away the memories of more memorable bands-the famed Coon-Sanders orchestra; or Ben Pollack's band, which featured a young trombonist named Glenn Miller and a clarinetist named Benny Goodman. Kay Kyser had started his College of Musical Knowledge there...
Vaughn Williams: Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Mitchell Miller, oboist, with the Saidenberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Mercury, 5 sides). England's Ralph Vaughn Williams composed this well-made, sweetly pastoral music during World War II. Vaughn Williams (with the expert help of Soloist Miller) makes even five sides of oboe pleasant to take. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...thought there was nothing odd about the fact that he knew several of the people accused by Elizabeth Bentley: George Silverman (a friend of his Harvard days), Victor Perlo, Harry White, Robert Talbot Miller III. Some were economists and he knew "literally hundreds of economists throughout the Government." One friend of Currie's who was no economist was Anatoli Gromov, onetime secretary of the Russian embassy. Miss Bentley testified last week that on one occasion Gromov had given her $2,000 for her information. Currie readily admitted knowing Gromov. "I met him at social occasions and was entertained...