Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quail. Since Thomas Jefferson revived it with his books as a nucleus in 1815, after the British burned it (in the Capitol) in 1814, the collection has grown to some 6,000,000 volumes and pamphlets,* 1,500,000 maps and views, 1,200,000 pieces and volumes of music, 550,000 prints, 100,000 bound volumes of newspapers, uncountable manuscripts. In it is deposited by law a copy of every publication copyrighted in the U. S. With its Archives annex (completed last year), it contains 1,563,189 square feet of floor space (36.88 acres), 414 miles of steel...
...Louis had to be back in Hamburg in time for a scheduled sailing on June 20. Back she started. The passengers tried to keep up their spirits with games, music, religious services; a patrol was organized to prevent suicides. The last slim hope of the refugees was to find a haven in the Old World. The Nazi Government, needled by the danger of mass suicide on the St. Louis, and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees expect to find a refuge this week for her freight in Britain, France, Belgium or The Netherlands...
...Orthodox educators were surprised at its persistence. Black Mountain resembles no other college in the U. S. It requires no attendance at classes, grants no degrees, has no president, no fraternities, no football team. Thus unencumbered by the machinery of curricular and extracurricular activities, it devotes itself to art, music, dramatics, philosophy and what it calls "community living." Last week, the better to house "community living," the college announced plans for new buildings such as no U. S. campus has seen...
...place of the usual, objectionable mode of dancing, they urge back-to-back waltzing, with gospel hymns in place of the modern, "voluptuous" music. The hymns, they conceded, 'might be played with such rhythms as to be appropriate for the purpose...
...fine arts claim two Seniors who want to become painters, while two more intend to enter the field of music. A concert singer and a composer fill out Harvard's contribution to the aesthetic arts...