Word: thems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked if teaching is detrimental to composition, if it limits the composer's own contribution to music, Hindemuth answers, "Myself, I cannot compose all the time. I don't get ideas just sitting around waiting for them. They come form somewhere, and I get them teaching." He admits, however...
As a rule the Niemans think History, Government, and Economics will help them most with their reporting, although Social Relations, English, and languages aren't ruled out.
Of course when the Nieman Fellows talk about competition they're not worrying about marks. But just the same the students keep them on their toes. One fellow goes to the blackboard regularly in beginning French, and, of the 11 in Merk's course, six took the hour exam. The...
For pleasure the Niemans have spent the fall Saturdays in the Soldiers Field press box and a couple of them were hit by water bags in the Square outbreak the night before the Princeton game.
Each of the fellows is affiliated with a House, and one of them--Clark R. Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register--took his affiliation so seriously that he went out for the Leverett House football team. Unfortunately Mollenhoff chanced to be a one-time captain of the Drake varsity football...