Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victory over old age, death, disease, sorrow. His inheritance was the ancient Vedantic philosophy (man is soul, and has a body that must be subjugated); his contribution was the forging of the middle way between pleasure and self-mortification by which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible...
...question and as a matter of fact seldom employed by this class of applicant as for the new plan of entrance, the lengthy reviews necessary for the successful passing of the comprehensives often prove too much for the prospective candidate, assisted by an only moderately experienced high school teacher, untutored in the ways of the Entrance Board...
...Brattle Hall on December 19, it was announced last night by the management. Paul Allen, a prominent orchestral composer, is writing a number to the played for the first time on this occasion, the opening of the orchestra's one hundred twenty-second concert season. Nicholas Siovimsky, composer, teacher, and conductor of the Pierian, explained that there will be six flute parts in this composition, and that there is an opportunity for three horns, three trombones, two double basses, two oboes and bassoons, and any number of violins and violas in the orchestra. A spring trip is being planned, provided...
...heard concerning Sacco and Vanzetti; it appeared that one of the most exciting episodes of U. S. jurisprudence was not even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical Art) aided by Director-Producer Hamilton McFadden and a seasoned cast, delivered a play which caused youthful Marxians to applaud for five minutes after the first night curtain, aided in their bravos by seasoned play-goers who knew they had seen a good...
Familiar indeed are Damrosch faces. There was Dr. Leopold first, a German Jew who fathered them all along with the Oratorio and Symphony Societies of New York. There are his four children-Teacher Frank (head of the Institute of Musical Art, now associated with the Juilliard Foundation); Pianist Clara, married to Violinist David Mannes and running with him the Mannes School of Music; Pianist Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry T. Seymour); Conductor Walter; Conductor Walter's wife who was Margaret Blaine, daughter of the late Senator James G. Blaine; Conductor Walter's four daughters-Alice (Mrs. Pleasants Pennington), Gretchen...