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When he learned that students had invited Secretary Perkins to the college, Geneva's psalm-singing* President McLeod Milligan Pearce last week hastily canceled the invitation, explained: "If Miss Perkins were not particularly identified with a labor movement, we would have been very glad to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pearce and Perkins | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Toward the end the piece settles into a quiet and completely anomalous mass of discordant voices which gradually work up the scale and resolve into peaceful harmonious chords on the final words of the psalm, "bonheur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/13/1938 | See Source »

...reporters who filed into his sanctum on the fifth anniversary of his first inauguration and the first Friday in Lent, Franklin Roosevelt last week promptly announced that the proper lead for the story he was about to give them was this psalm, which he had just heard read at St. John's Episcopal Church. Furthermore, said the Harvard Crimson's onetime chief, make-up editors should put it at the top of the page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Citizen of Zion | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Seymour. In Battell Chapel in New Haven, Conn., 1,000 guests intoned the 65th Psalm, sung in the first Yale College building in 1718. To tall Yaleman Charles Seymour, 52, Yale's Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut, presented the symbols of office-the mace, the keys, the record book, the charter and the great seal of the university-in sonorous Latin pronounced him the 15th president of Yale. In Latin, President Seymour replied. This 200-year-old ritual completed, Historian Seymour mounted the pulpit, warned that "Yale must be vigilantly self-critical . . . must beware of the peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Solemn Presidents | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Composers' Forum-Laboratory is as follows: String Quartet No. 2 Walter Hamor Piston. Three Songs Walter Raymond Spalding (A) Aubado (B) Sea Song (C) Sorrow and Joy Sextette for Wind Instruments and Piano Edward Burlingham Hill Trio in C for violin, violincello and piano William Clifford Hoilman Psalm 137 for mixed chorus Fan Stylian Noli

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Composers' Forum Will Honor Harvard Musicians Tonight | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

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