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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...auditorium, swimming pool, gymnasium, cafeteria, trade school, all with the most modern equipment. One room is an exact replica of the one in London in which George Williams, dry goods clerk, helped found the first Y. M. C. A. in 1844. The Juilliard Musical Foundation has given a fine organ, the American Bible Society a copy of the Bible in every language it publishes. Most of the building's total cost - $1,000,000 - was donated by the late James Newbegin Jarvie, Montclair (N. J.) sugar and coffee merchant, friend of Archibald Clinton Harte, who as Jerusalem secretary conceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Julian's Way | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Dartmouth College, having experimented for twelve years with the selective process of admissions, has now decided to extend, it as the sole basis for choosing applicants. Prospective freshmen will be considered on individual standards, entrance unit requirements are to be abolished, and the approved school will become a vestigial organ in Hanover. The decision comes as the result of a feeling that the present qualifications are both impersonal and meaningless, and is intended to exert a humanizing influence upon the somewhat Prussian character of admission brochures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH REFORMS | 4/26/1933 | See Source »

Excessive rattling of one of the windows in Memorial Church, caused by the sounding of low notes on the organ, is the latest addition to the acoustic troubles University authorities have encountered since the new organ was installed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCAFFOLDING ON CHAPEL PUT UP TO QUIET NOISY WINDOW | 4/25/1933 | See Source »

...Caspar Neher goes credit for some unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...immediate vicinity. "Cavalcade" and "42nd Street" illustrate the increasingly effective use of musical themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World." The whistling epidemic that has swept Harvard since "42nd Street" was the child not of single renditions of "Shufile Off to Buffalo," "I'm Young and Healthy," etc. but of the almost...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

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