Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quaint survivals that sound strange to the average American. Overlooked by such specialists is the great mass of songs the average American sings, songs that are as familiar as bathtubs or chewing gum. These songs go out of fashion into limbo. But they are authentic U. S. folk music, nonetheless...
...fashion at U. S. commencements soon after the Civil War, Mr. Sargent reported. Today an elaborate code, to which 95 schools and colleges adhere, governs the gowns' sizes, colors, materials. Black is for liberal arts graduates, white or grey for high school, blue for normal school, pink for music, lemon for library science, silver-grey for oratory, maize for agriculture. Harvard has its own code, uses varicolored crow's-feet on the front panels of gowns instead of velvet hood trimmings to distinguish separate orders of graduates...
...across Europe in 1929, when Europe seemed far from war, two young American women, Mount Holyoke's Mildred Burgess and Syracuse University's Marguerite M. Lux, decided it would be nice to open a college for U. S. girls in Switzerland. There girls could combine study with music, art, mountain climbing, skiing and meeting charming young Europeans. The Misses Burgess and Lux got Eleanor Roosevelt, Newton D. Baker and other bigwigs to sponsor their college, opened it in Geneva in the fall of 1930 with 25 students at $1,500 a head...
...Charles Eliot Norton poetry professorship (music, art, letters), Harvard appointed high-domed Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, established a Ralph Waldo Emerson poetry fellowship (first incumbent: Robert Frost...
...After graduate work in art and archeology, he taught at Vassar, Harvard, Princeton, and launched at Wellesley in 1926 an ambitious course in modern art. It involved "driving a seven-or eight-wheeled chariot," handling not only modern sculpture and painting but architecture, industrial art, cinema, photography and whatever music and literature came in handy. Its purpose: "to equip people to face contemporary civilization." This course led Professor Sachs to recommend him to Mr. Goodyear. It was the subject matter of this course, in a new incarnation, which visitors last week saw displayed in the Museum of Modern...