Word: russia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russia...
...Alfred Swan will lecture in John Knowles Paine Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock on "What is Russia's Part in Modern Music." He will accompany his lecture with pianoforte illustrations...
...Russia is today the most scientific country in the world and the educational system there is fundamentally different from that of any other nation. The basic change which the Soviet government has effected is the proletarianizing of education'. In Russia, children of the well to do bourgeoise and aristocrats are no longer given a better opportunity of acquiring an education as is still the case in Harvard, Columbia and the other old and established universities of this country. In fact whenever it is necessary to make a choice in admission to a higher educational institution, students of the bourgeoise...
...What is Russia's Part in Modern Music" is to be the text of a lecture this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. Mr. Alfred Swan has come from New York to give the lecture with his own pianoforte illustrations. Mr. Swan is a recognized authority on the impressionism of the modern French school and the tremendous influence it has had on recent Russian music
...Because Russia obstinately refuses to attend a conference on Swiss soil (TIME, Feb. l),with the deliberate intention of thwarting the League, which of course maintains its large and immovable permanent equipment at Geneva.* 3) Because France and England do not want Germany to sit in at such a conference until she is within the League and has fully complied with the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles...