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...Belmont, who endowed her organization and purchased for it three large buildings near the Capitol, believes that the new parliament of women will function as a considerable moral influence on the Federal Congress, by giving example as well as precept...
...three years Obregon has established his Constitution. Mexico is rapidly becoming a happy home for Mexicans. The great haciendas have been split up into small farms. Schools are increasing in numbers and merit. The railroads are beginning to function at a profit. And, for the first time since Madero's wild plunge, the Government of Mexico has produced a budget which fulfills the constitutional requirements. It is by this budget that the first payments are being made to the landlords who were deprived of their land, and also the first payments on the international debt. The Army and Navy...
Music weeks and festivals have raised loud ensembles all over the country during the closing season days. The most notable undoubtedly is the Cincinnati Music Festival. This function is wrapped with the triple dignities of age, bigness and merit. Cincinnati celebrates its Golden Anniversary Festival, the 50th yearly invocation of tuneful sound. The first festival was directed by Theodore Thomas in 1873. All of these events have been large and ceremonious...
...hoped that men will look forward more and more to the work of teaching music in the public schools. Inadequately educated teachers and inferior standards of music have for a long time caused this branch of the profession to be looked upon with suspicion. It is the function of the college to rectify this, and Harvard hopes to offer a real service to the cause of music and education by sending out every year well-trained musicians to this work
...hoped that men will look forward more and more to the work of teaching music in the public schools. Inadequately educated teachers and inferior standards of music have for a long time caused this branch of the profession to be looked upon with suspicion. It is the function of the college to rectify this, and Harvard hopes to offer a real service to the cause of music and education by sending out every year well-trained musicians to this work