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Compositions for this prize must be written for four or more voices, with or without solo parts and accompaniment; the words may be in any language, and either sacred or secular. The manner and methods of Mozart or Cherubini in their Masses is, however, recommended by Mr. Boott in its bequest...
Last fall, "John Brown's Body" was published. To accomplish this work, Mr. Benet lived in the South of France on a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, which enabled him to devote most of his time to the writing of the book, without being disturbed by financial worry...
...blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called...
...Significance. The U. S. has been called a, country without one original philosophy. But a spirit of no mean origi- nality manifests itself in the three follow-ing life attitudes: 1) New England Puritanism; 2) Negroid Epicureanism, now spreading from rural South to urban North; 3) academic pragmatism (William James, John Dewey) which learns a Western pioneer's and Eastern businessman's view of future and past. In this group belong the Carnegies and Kellers. Optimism affected Businessman Carnegie...
...Edwards Whitaker Prize Scholarship will be awarded "at mid-years to the Freshman who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise as indicated by distinction in studies and general achievement. The prize is to be awarded without regard to the financial needs of the candidates, but may be increased proportionally to the need of the successful candidate, amounting to at least...