Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic philosophy of the times. Fine considers a similar course for the many chamber music performers in the University of equal value...
...Advising: "Nearly all of the students are left to find their own way. . . . The typical student desperately wants some form of guidance, or at least a closer association with the faculty in order to be reassured that his work is meaningful, that his place in the university is important, and that his growth is in the proper direction...
...consolidated railroads, he saw that his work could be completely wrecked by bad management. What better way was there to insure good management than to place control of all the roads in members of his firm or friends? He had complete contempt for those men who had used railroads as speculative toys, such as Daniel Drew and Jay Gould, and his method was the only way he could make sure that such men would be kept out of railroad management...
...then control to insure good management. The evils of the Morgan system are obvious, but unlike his predecessors, Allen merely presents the motives and lets his readers decide whether they are good or bad. His book contains material for both the muckraker and the Morgan-worshipper. It paves the way for a more scientific evaluation of this period than has been possible in the past...
...become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture of Henry VIII in the mind of the average man today is Laughton's creation. In the same way, the history of Henry's last four marriages which most people know is really the script of this film. Maxwell Anderson's current creation on Broadway may create a new Henry for the popular taste, but so far the Laughton version still rules. Elsa Lanchester, Laughton's real wife, really...