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Archeologist and Composer Cornell Clubs all over the country are During the spring recess, March 30 to Messenger Endowment Fund brings to already at work in a concerted program April 7, the' * traveling professors" of the the University this term a British author- of informing outstanding students in Faculty committee will again be busy at ity on Anglo-Saxon art and, with the secondary schools about the University, meetings arranged by Cornell Clubs for Goldwin Smith and Jacob Schiff lecture looking toward their application for secondary school students, with under- foundations, an internationally famous admission. graduates also invited. Professor Durham composer of music. Last week, members of the Faculty will be in Chicago, 111., March 2.9, to- Last week, Dr. Paul Hindemuth, Ger- committee on relations with secondary gether with Emmet J. Murphy '2.2., man composer and former conductor of schools interviewed boys and spoke at Alumni Secretary. April i and x, Profes- the Frankfurt Opera, gave the first of a meetings arranged by three Cornell Clubs sor Durham goes to Minneapolis and St. series of six Tuesday afternoon lectures in New England, and in Essex County, N. Paul, Minn.; April 3 he will be in Mil- comprising "An Introduction to the J. March 14, Professor Charles L. Durham waukee, Wis.; April 4 will visit Culver Technique of Composition." Suited to '99, Latin, Dr. Eugene F. Bradford, Di- Military Academy; and April 5 will be audiences without technical background rector of Admissions, and Ray S. Ashbery in Indianapolis, Ind. or experience in musical composition, his 'x5, Alumni Field Secretary, attended a Professor Adams will spend several lectures show how the composer uses party for boys at the University Club in days of spring recess assisting with the musical thoughts in building his com- Hartford, Conn., arranged by the Cor- secondary school programs of the Cor- positions, and include actual composing. nell Club of Hartford. With them were nell Clubs of Washington, D. C., Dela- For ten years he has been professor of R. Selden Brewer '40, Raymond W. Kruse ware, and Maryland. Professor Jordan composition at the Hochschule in Berlin, '41, and Harold B. Zook '40, Musical will work with Clubs in Albany and but because of sympathy with non- Clubs performers. March 16, the party, Schenectady. Aryan musicians in Germany he has except Dr. Bradford, attended a gather- April 3, the Cornell Club of Cleveland, stayed out of that country the last three ing arranged by the Cornell Club of Ohio, is making plans for "the largest years. He came to America at the in- Springfield, Mass., and that evening Pro- Cornell smoker ever held in Cleveland," stance of Cornell, Wells College, and the fessor Durham and Ashbery were at a at the Cleveland Club at 8. Coach Carl University of Buffalo, on a special visa Club party for boys in Pittsfield, Mass. Snavely and Murphy will speak, under- issued by the American consul at Geneva March 15, Professor Bristow Adams, graduates at home for spring recess are and with assurances of a safe passage Agriculture Publications, Dr. Bradford, being invited, and an entertainment pro- from the British and French embassies in and Ashbery were at a schoolboy party gram is being arranged with George W. Washington, because of the official given by the Cornell Club of Essex Teare 'in. as master of ceremonies. nature of his work here and his own dis- County, N. J., at the Rock Spring tinguished standing as an artist. Country Club. The same day, the Cornell Women To Give Teas Dr. Hindemuth has twice previously Club of Cleveland entertained prospective Cornell Women's Clubs are arranging visited America for concert tours as a Freshmen, with Dr. Harry Peters, head- spring recess teas for local high school violist. He is the author of four operas, master of University School, as a special girls, with undergraduate women to other large orchestral works, four string guest and speaker. speak of life on the Campus. These are quartets and other chamber music, and a Earlier, Professor Riverda H. Jordan, under the general direction of Mrs. Allan large number of short compositions for Education, chairman of the Faculty com- H. Mogensen (Adele A. Dean) '2.3 for voice and for piano, violin, viola, 'cello, mittee, visited St. Louis, Mo., Kansas the Federation of Cornell Women's and other instruments. Two recent books City, Mo., and Omaha, Nebr., in the Clubs, with Marjorie H. Lee '41 as of his expound a new theory of harmony interests of secondary school work. Din- chairman of student speakers and Mrs. which is considered the'' most important ner of the Cornell Club of St. Louis Feb- Walter J. Purcell (Dorothy A. Korherr) contribution to the scholarly aspect of ruary 2.9 was attended by fifteen men. In '30 of the Alumni Office in charge of ar- music theory that has come from the Kansas City March i, with John F.