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Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 John R. Dover Memorial Library 10-1-1916 Volume 34, Number 10 (October 1916) James Francis Cooke Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History Commons, Liturgy and Worship Commons, Music Education Commons, Musicology Commons, Music Pedagogy Commons, Music Performance Commons, Music Practice Commons, and the Music Theory Commons Recommended Citation Cooke, James Francis. "Volume 34, Number 10 (October 1916)." , (1916). https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/629 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The tudeE Magazine: 1883-1957 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. 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Wilkins and Hamlin Garland. Take these names from great men of all time have always been dreamers. The master American literature and a very serious gap would be left. dreamer is he who realizes his dreams. The daily phantoms of grand Yet no one but a very stupid person in this day would argue achievement which pass through the brains of millions of dreamers against the advantages of a college education. The Etude has are caught by the master dreamer and turned from nebulous thoughts urged the special desirability of the music student securing a broad to towering cathedrals, magnificent painting, glorious symphonies, and liberal training. Nevertheless, those who are most familiar with wonderful inventions and powerful nations. musical conditions in America must realize that much of the work Richard Wagner was one of the greatest dreamers in the whole done in teaching composition often serves to make the students very realm of music. 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