Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Violin prodigies are much more common than piano prodigies, for small violinists can begin on small-sized instruments which fit their fingers. Louis Persinger, who taught Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci, has a violin pupil who created an unusual stir this week...
...more than any other modern composer. Philadelphia and New York have not forgotten the harrowing chromatics in Die Glückliche Hand, which Leopold Stokowski gave three years ago. The much talked-of Wozzeck, which the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company put on, is a Schönberg stepchild. His pupil Alban Berg wrote...
Fortunately, not even the slender arguments traditionally cited in favor of the November hour can be used to support the April examination. In the case of full courses especially, the latter forms no mirror of mutual acquaintance between pupil and instructor. It is simply an ill-timed interruption of tutorial work and serious study, an organized period of cramming brought on in order that a grade, seldom considered in averaging the final mark, may be returned to University Hall. As is recognized by most members of the faculty, the very brevity of the hour examination renders it a ridiculously inadequate...
...every man who undertakes the tutelage of younger minds is given the opportunity, perhaps the best opportunity within human society, to win for his name, for his abilities, even for his eccentricities, a profoundly sentimental reverence. This reverence of pupil for teacher all ages of civilized men share in common nostalgic felicity. It persists in a time and among men who conscientiously harbor cynicism. It is, in short, an inescapable adjunct to discipleship. It is not, however, an inescapable adjunct to professorship. Every teacher, it is true, receives some small portion--his due as an officer, as an adult...
William Graham Sumner was a great teacher. Mr. Keller is an apt, therefore a reverent, pupil. And in this little book, the disciple has painted the master and the man, wholly, alive, with appropriate sentiment. Mr. Keller disclaims all intent of order. One by one, indiscriminately, he picks out the characteristics of his subject and illustrates them with anecdote and incidental background. The result, as we shall see, is something more than a vivid memoir...