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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closet. The qualities of poise and self-possession, of persuasion and logic and clear, quick thinking come from practice in public speaking, and in the long run the student will probably find them of more value than the history of the novel. English F should be bolstered by two regular half courses, one open to Freshmen in the primary tricks of speaking, and one to teach the advance principles. There is an ancient bogey that such courses would be "snaps", arising from the department's distrust of its own ability to enforce strict standards. It would not stand...
...receptions. When, in 1918, Director Edward Robinson asked him to give a concert for soldiers & sailors, the Mannes Concerts began. Only 781 people went to hear him. He then got his musicians from the New York Symphony, now gets them from the Philharmonic and other orchestras, pays them regular union rates...
...Mannes has never ceased to boast that he "landed in the most beautiful building in the world." The son of a Polish furniture dealer, he was born 70 years ago in New York City. He was too poor to go to school more than four years, or to afford regular music lessons. From 13 onward, he fiddled at parties, skating rinks, theatres, a waxworks museum, learned English when he played for nothing at the old Union Square Theatre. He was still a boy when he met Violinist John Douglas, the talented son of a Negro slave who had studied...
...Substitution of regular criminal procedure for a "Code Authority" in any coal legislation the U. S. Congress passes...
...These extra funds would solve the H.A.A.'s minor sports question for the present, and should not be opposed by Freshmen of immediately approaching years. These men use the athletic facilities free only because of the compulsory character of yearling athletics. Yet if they did not exercise on a regular schedule the ten dollar difference might easily be taken up in larger Stillman Infirmary fecs...