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...Each summer since, about 50 similarly dedicated instrumentalists and singers from abroad have turned up for the series on nothing more than Menotti's promise of bed and board. They have performed everything from 13th century motets to Korean twelve-tone, are directed by Georgia-born Pianist Charles Wadsworth, a noted lieder accompanist who performed at one of Jackie Kennedy's White House soir...
...CRIMSON will be available today, tomorrow, and Wednesday at the Union, the Dunster dining hall, the Hasty pudding Clubhouse, Wadsworth House (the Alumni Center), and the CRIMSON building (14 Plympton ST.). Wednesday's issue will also be distributed in the Radcliffe Yard. Thursday's will be distributed in the Union, in the Yard, and at the CRIMSON...
...Wadsworth House and Hicks House, the other two colonial domestic structures belonging to the University, are typical works of gentlemen designers and are very representative of the 18th century. Only one Harvard building of this period, Hollis Hall, has been attributed to a professional builder and even that is uncertain. Hollis was designed with polish and excellently constructed but still might be the handiwork of a well-versed amateur...
...family portraits. James McNeill Whistler never got around to his maternal grandmum, Mrs. Martha Kingsley McNeill. She was painted, nonetheless, by a pair of itinerant artists from Connecticut, and the 19½ in.; by 24-in. oil that Grandma never liked-all those frills-now contemplates posterity at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford...
...welcomed Prince Otto von Bismarck, until debts drove him away. In 1787 it turned out Germany's first female Ph.D. -sloe-eyed Dorothea Schlozer, who at 17 overpowered her examiners while decked out in roses and white muslin. By drawing a variety of young Americans, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Göttingen put a German academic stamp on many U.S. universities...