Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoffmann, who has been a pupil of Albert Spalding, graduated with honors at only 18. During the 13 years he spent in Germany, he gained prominence as a director of symphonies and operas. Upon his recent return to Boston, he was appointed by the Piston government committee as Director of Music for Boston...
...Savings movement reached a slightly dizzy peak when 4,500,000 U. S. youngsters deposited over $29,000,000. In schools throughout the land "home rooms" vied for banners signifying the highest average of depositors. All-city champion schools were rewarded with kind words from superintendents. And any wretched pupil who failed to deposit his weekly dime was disgraced. Since that time, annual school savings have tobogganed to about...
...administrator of Groton's million dollar endowment fund, Dr. Peabody, should write his distinguished pupil, Franklin Roosevelt, for some ERA money. If he were granted an income of $500, he might spare some of his boys the humiliation which they experience when they are unable to contribute towards Student Council scholarships, class expenses, and PBH charity work...
...Reimer, Edward Laning, 29, knew little of railroad history, a lot about the theory and practice of mural painting. Leaving Amherst because the sound of John Coolidge's saxophone was more than he could stand, he went to Manhattan, entered the Art Students' League. There he became an ardent pupil and disciple of Kenneth Hayes Miller, and a faithful follower of the painter who inspired Instructor Miller, Peter Paul Rubens. In Europe Laning had made a Rubens tour through Paris, Holland, Belgium, Spain, the result of which is obvious in all his work. Critics consider him one of the more...
...training and to show great promise. Miss Garden selected 51. Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people as Mrs. Charles H. Swift (Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher's quips...