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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three days before Caruso died he sent for a boy named Giulio Nardella and asked him to sing. This Nardella had been a silk-weaver in a New Jersey factory. He sang as he worked. He sang as he walked home. People praised the beauty of his voice and Caruso sent him to study with de Lucia of Naples. That day he sang by the great tenor's bedside the last song Caruso heard. Last week he returned to the U. S. He will sing this winter in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nardella | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

Thomas Mott Osborne '84, noted penologist and champion of prison reform, who gained national prominence as reform warden of Sing Sing prison, will lecture again this year at the Phillips Brooks House on November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. CANNOT FIND OPPONENT FOR OSBORNE | 10/14/1925 | See Source »

...Osborne's career as a reformer, first as chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform and later as Warden of Sing Sing and as Commander of the Naval Prison at Hortsmouth, N. H., has attracted nation wide interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. CANNOT FIND OPPONENT FOR OSBORNE | 10/14/1925 | See Source »

...other way. In my mind, teaching is not merely a life work, a profession, an occupation, a struggle. It is a passion. I love to teach. I love to teach as a painter loves to paint, as a musician loves to play, as a singer loves to sing, as a strong man rejoices to run a race. Teaching is an art an art so great and so difficult to master that a man or woman can spend a long life at it, without realizing much more than his limitations and mistakes, and his distance from the ideal. But the main...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confessions of a True Teacher | 10/6/1925 | See Source »

...Toscha Seidel, Mischa Levitzki, the New York State Symphony Orchestra. These artists have already been engaged. Mr. Kent will pay them. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will do the broadcasting from WEAF and others of its stations. If phonograph companies consent, other artists now bound by contract will sing on Sunday nights, beginning on Oct. 4, stopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sunday Nights | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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