Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...leadership in numbers from Berlin to Columbia. Whatever may be said regarding the relative value to the individual of student opportunities in an institution of 10,000 and those to be had in the smaller colleges, there can be no question that Columbia is performing a public service of vast proportions to the community which it touches and the country at large in bringing 10,000 students within the pale of its educational work. Believing the dissemination of learning to be the primary duty of that institution, its aim is to reach as many people as its equipment and conditions...
...sense, as well as generous enthusiasm--a rare combination in musical critics--in Ernest Newman's "After Wagner--What? Most of the short article is occupied with a discussion of certain aspects of Wagner's greatness, such as his never-relaxing grasp, down to the smallest details, of his vast material...
Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...
...Frederick Roy Martin '93, assistant manager of the Associated Press, delivered an interesting and instructive address on "Gathering the News of the World," in the Union last evening. Mr. Martin described the organization and functions of the vast system of which he is a manager, told many incidents of daily newsgathering, and outlined the requirements of the successful news-gatherer...
...Frederick Roy Martin '93 will give an address tonight in the Living Room of the Union at 8.15 o'clock. Mr. Martin is the assistant manager of the Associated Press, and in his talk on "Gathering the News of the World" will describe the workings of this vast system. Mr. Martin has served in various editorial positions since his graduation from the University, and was the Boston Journal's correspondent in Porto Rice during the Spanish...