Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles J. Olson, Counsellor in American Civilization in Winthrop House, is the sole Harvard representative among 69 winners of Guggenheim Fellowships for 1939. His project is "a critical history of the growth of Herman Melville through a study of his writing and his reading...
...graduate of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, Olson studied at Yale in 1932-33 as an Olin Fellow in English. In 1933-34 he worked on his Melville project, one chapter of which, "Lear and Moby Dick," has been published. After two years on the faculty of Clark University in Worcester, he came to Harvard as a staff member and graduate student...
Last week the chairman of the full Committee, old (80) Edward Taylor of Colorado, announced after a White House conference (at which he promised a a $994,000 irrigation project in Colorado's Delta County), that this time he would handle the $150,000,000 item himself, and that he was for it. "Purge!" cried the anti-Spenders and set their heels down harder than ever...
...symphony orchestras employ unemployed musicians. But they seldom draw crowds or move their listeners to rafter-raising applause. An exception to this rule is Chicago's WPA orchestra, the Illinois Symphony. When it was first organized in 1935 the Illinois Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen...
Financed by a $19,000 gift from the Rockefeller Foundation the project is under the direction of the American Council on Education, a national organization of which Harvard is a member...