Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They arrived in Manhattan to sup at the house of a Lincoln student off Park Avenue. Next day, fresh-cheeked and inquisitive, they rode a subway to Wall Street, visited other business districts, the Aquarium, Bellevue Hospital (which awed them), Radio City, headquarters of the Consolidation (Rockefeller) Coal Co. (which owns some of their mines). In rapid succession during the next six days, pausing only to eat and take a few winks of sleep, Morgantown's children rode a tug around New York Harbor, where the girls hallooed at sailors on U. S. warships, inspected the Europa, bridges, power...
...festival's end patient Rochesterians had sat through so many new U. S. compositions, that they would have clutched 0 Sole Mio or Ach Du Lieber Augustin like a drowning man. Most-talked-about item of the series: a symphony by a 20-year-old post graduate Eastman student named Owen Reed. Some critics found Reed's brief, concise opus somewhat monotonous. Not so Director Hanson, who spoke of it with exuberant breath: "Comparison of Reed's work with Beethoven's can be made only by a critic in the year...
...look bored, their artistic views are seldom consulted. Last week the San Francisco Chronicle published a "Guard's-Eye View of the Arts" by one who was not consulted but spoke up anyway. He was 26-year-old Worth Graham Seymour, a rolling stone reporter, seaman and law student who has worked for the last month in the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair...
Claiming that excessive tutoring results from the improper emphasis which University educational requirements place on examinations, The Progressive refused to fall in line with the stand taken by some other student publications in declining tutoring school advertisements, according to an editorial in its latest issue...
Critical of the examination system which permits students to "stuff themselves with the necessary information, spew it forth on a blue book the following morning, and promptly forget it," the lead article in the Student Union publication said that the University would have to make radical changes in the method of teaching and examining before the tutoring schools could be eliminated...