Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foundation began by sponsoring concerts in Washington similar to those at South Mountain. Its realm soon enlarged, however, to publications, radio, bringing European musicians to America, awarding medals for outstanding service to chamber music, continuing to commission new works, and, perhaps most important, beginning a program of free "extension concerts" in Europe and in educational and cultural institutions in the United States...
Professor Spencer, who was a frequent contributor of articles and verse to literary magazines and whose latest collection of poems was published just this year, was a pioneer in the General Education program here, and his course in Shakespeare was widely attended...
...festivals in her newly finished Music Temple on South Mountain, near Pittsfield. To them she brought the most capable and renowned musicians in the world. The names of Hugo Kortschak, Willem Willeke, Jacques Gordon, Rudolf Kolisch, William Kroll, Albert Spalding, Myra Hess, and hosts of others appear on these programs. In these years she organized the Berkshire Quartet, the Coolidge Quartet, and the Elshuco Trio. She inaugurated in 1921 the Coolidge Prize for chamber music compositions and began commissioning works by contemporary composers. The list of those she has helped in this way, who have dedicated their works...
During the summer Dean Leighton and the Yard proctors planned out a program of intramural athletics for freshmen, similar to the House League. Under the guidance of a graduate secretary, the League got off to a rousing start in the fall with a series of 75 touch football games in which 16 entry teams participated. Enthusiasm has continued strong with the current basketball championship, and plans for the future include swimming, squash, and tennis...
...This program is a long, if overdue, step forward in expanding Yard activities. It is probably the best way of getting freshmen to know one another, and incidentally it disposes of the physical training requirement in a far pleasanter way than one-hour exercise classes...