Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lastly, a new program should be developed in conjunction with the second semester's work. While small conference groups should be retained as the fundamental organization, it would be an excellent idea to have weekly lectures given by specialists in certain fields, such as the drama, the novel, the poem, or the essay. Certainly the English Department has such specialists. These men, of necessity, would emphasize the form of each type of literature, but precisely what the student needs is an insight into the mechanics of writing and the organization of ideas...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, national director of the Federal Music Project, is to conduct an augmented orchestra of 125 WPA musicians in the Opera House on Sunday evening. The program consists of Weber's Overture to "Euryanthe", Brahms's first Symphony, Loeffler's "Pagan Poem" with Heinrich Gebhard, pianist, as soloist, Romheld's Minuet, and the "Sailors' Dance" from "The Red Poppy" by Gliere. While the concert may not have the technical finish of some of those given by our established orchestra, it does nevertheless merit attention...
...given no special recognition. In 1493 a great plague of syphilis spread out of Naples, apparently carried there by Spanish troopers. Up to that time the disease had no specific name, was thereafter referred to as the Great Pox. In 1530 Girolamo Fracastoro, an Italian, produced a Latin poem entitled Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. Its hero, a shepherd named Syphilus was smitten with the Great Pox. Thus did this ancient disease finally get a literary name...
Illinois, had a birthday, penned a poem...
...tone poem, "Don Juan," by Richard Strauss is also on the program. Written in 1887-88, it portrays not Byron's, but Nicolaus Lenau's Don Juan--a hero who longed for the ideal woman and failed to find her. Sibelius's Fifth Symphony is a fitting close to this fine concert...