Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Manhattan's famed Progressive Lincoln School sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last...
Unlike many thousands of U. S. citizens who visited New York City last week, they gave only a fleeting glance to its World's Fair. They heard Pearl Buck lecture on China at Town Hall, Columbia's Professor Clyde R. Miller lecture on propaganda at Lincoln School. To relax, they sailed in a yacht, saw Pins and Needles and a show at Radio City Music Hall, where they went backstage to pose for pictures with the Rockettes...
...white-haired Eastman founded a $17,000,000 school of music in Rochester. This huge establishment was somewhat grandiose for a town of Rochester's size, but the Eastman School of Music flourished, and is today counted one of the most important music conservatories...
...director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again...
Scrubbed whistle-clean, the tomb of Ulysses S. Grant was rededicated in Manhattan. Commented Joseph Hudnut of Harvard Architectural School in The New Republic: "This ponderous, huge monster has seized this unaffected and reticent man and holds him ... in an eternal pillory of pomp and pretense...