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...Risks. Yet, in 1950, U.S. graduating classes would have some words to remember-and they were not all words of desperation. At Northampton, Mass-., Smith College's former President Herbert J. Davis had best expressed what many another educator took as his theme for the fateful days of 1950. "Your consciousness," said Davis, "has been extended to look before and after . . . You have heard something of the glory and of the shame of man's history. You cannot say that you did not know that there have been saints and prophets and poets who have offered to humanity...
Last week Smith College in Northampton, Mass. honored 69-year-old Alfred Einstein as one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics. In a three-day celebration, fellow members of the Smith faculty and students played and sang some of the music they thought would please him most. It ranged from 16th and 17th Century Italian madrigals that Musicologist Einstein himself had unearthed and edited, to Mozart and Schubert quartets and compositions by 20th Century Composers Roger Sessions and Benjamin Britten. Old and new, the music was done to Scholar Einstein's taste...
Since 1939, when he became William Allan Neilson Research Professor at Smith, he and his wife and daughter have lived in Northampton. He also travels to Princeton for a weekly lecture, every fortnight or so drops by to visit his distinguished cousin Albert. Last year the Princeton University Press published the three-volume book he has been working toward for over 30 years, The Italian Madrigal, which not only is the definitive work on 16th and early 17th Century Italian secular music but a historical study of Renaissance Italy as well...
...crowd of girl flyers from Smith waited in a freezing rain at Northampton airport yesterday, but their Harvard dales-the-air never showed...
Scheduled to arrive at Northampton for a 9.30 a.m. breakfast and a "spot-landing" contest with Smith, Yale, Mt. Holyoke, and Dartmouth, 13 members of the Harvard Flying Club left Bedford Airport at 8 a.m. Bad weather forced them to return...