Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranged to meet the well-known artist Schumann. It happened something like this: "Guten Morgen, I am glad to know you. Won't you come in?" The two moved into the living room, where the visitor's eyes immediately rested upon the piano. Schumann hastened to ask: "Won't you please play something of your own composition?" Without more encouragement the gauche musician sat down and began to play his C major Sonata. Before he had proceeded far, his host cried: "Wait, Gott im Himmel, Clara must listen to this...
Fetching his wife, he brought her to the pianist and said: "Here, my dear Clara, you will hear music such as you have never heard before; now begin the piece again, young man!" In a few minutes Schumann could not resist praising the genius and foretelling a brilliant future for him. For days he repeated to his friends: "One has come from whom we may expect all kinds of wonders. His name is Johannes Brahms...
Introduced by Dean Hanford, Professor Frederick L. Schumann, of Williams, will give the main address...
...After Schumann's address, A. Jerome Himelhoch '38 will announce the five-fold purpose of the strike: to demand the demilitarization of colleges, to oppose the war budget, to recognize the Oxford pledge, to defend civil liberties, and to resolve to keep America out of war. Himelhoch will stress the importance of supporting the Nye-Kvale amendment to eliminate compulsory military training...
...themselves to the Boston Common," unless they are as badly misled by the "Crimson" as by the Childes lecture announcement. The meeting on the Common is at twelve o'clock, and will be preceded by an indoor meeting in the New Lecture Hall to be addressed by Professor Schumann and Dean Hanford; this is the eleven o'clock meeting, under purely Harvard auspices. Again, Professor Robert Morss Lovett is not even primarily a "pro-labor sympathizer," as you describe him, in your attempt to make the greater Boston Peace Strike look like a mass labor meeting...