Word: victrolas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the work he is doing in public speaking. Professor Harvard is starting a series of phonograph records which may revolutionize all present methods of teaching in these courses. Through the Harvard University Press victrola records have already been made by Charles Townsend Copeland '32, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oxatory, Emeritus, and by Fred Norris Robinson '91, Professor of English. These records are now on sale, and include readings from chapters six and seven at the "Book of Revelation," by Professor Copeland, and part of Chaucer's. The denner's Tale" and "The Debate of the Body...
...Room, the Union library, or the House libraries, and it is certainly as important to hear fine music as it is to read good books. At present all but a few hundred students at Harvard hear good music only at concerts. There is great need of a collection of victrola records and music, with rooms where they might be used. If it is fair to judge by the success of the experiments in Lowell and Leverett, the popularity of such a library would more than justify the cost...
...could fail to share her dismay. With this flaw, Another Language remains a sharp, dreadful and amusing picture of middle-class domesticity especially notable for a brilliant performance by Louise Closser Hale, who died last fortnight. Good shot: old Mrs. Hallam reviving from a faint when she hears the Victrola playing at the Victor Hallams' party...
Banjos and mandolins have sometimes figured in the day's catch, and on one occasion, a victrola was gathered up after an initiation on the steps of Widener. Phillips Brooks House profits considerably from the forgetfulness of Harvard men, as unclaimed articles are given to them at the end of three months. On Friday, February 10, the date of its last consignment, the following articles were received: 47 felt hats, 2 berets, 27 notebooks, 78 textbooks, and one pair of running pants...
...much use has been made of the victrola which has been installed since the beginning of the year, that a second one has been acquired and placed in the Junior Common room. Recordings correspond to a list compiled by the Carnegie Foundation as an ideal representative group for use in colleges. Half the records have already arrived while the others, many of which are being sent from Europe, will be here soon. In connection with the phonograph records, Lowell House has also received a set of over 150 miniature scores, which may be read while listening to the records...