Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John H. Van Vleck for investigations in quantum mechanics; G. Wallace Woodworth to investigate the sources of Bach's styles in the music of the seventeenth century...
...operas. This work, "L'Orfeo", was revolutionary in character for it employed a wide varsity of musical forms as well as utilising what was then an unusually large orchestra. From this opera, two orchestral interludes titled Sinfonie and Ritornelli are to be played by the Symphony, providing an excellent seventeenth century balance for the rest of the program...
This evening in Paine Hall, members of the Wellesley Madrigal Group and ten players from the brass section of the Pierian Sodality under Malcolm Holmes '28 will give an unusually interesting concert composed of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century works which Mr. Holmes brought back with him last summer from Europe. Also tonight, the State Symphony Orchestra is giving a concert in Sanders Theatre which includes Brahma's Fourth Symphony...
Clergymen, idiots, public servants, and drunkards, and one Indian teacher were all furnished to the community by Harvard in the seventeenth century, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, revealed in his "Harvard College in the Seventeenth Century." This is a volume of the Tercentenary history just issued...
This, of course, is much the most logical solution to the age problem. But it will take more than perfect logic to convince the private schools to give up their boys a year earlier; they have a vested interest, backed by all the weight of tradition, in that seventeenth year, and will not quickly give...