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...Seeger Joins Professors...
Banjos and folk ballads are bread, butter and life to Pete Seeger, erstwhile member of the Class of 1940 who will return to Cambridge in a free, informal recital for the Food Relief Committee this afternoon in Emerson D at 5 o'clock...
After his two years here in Leverett House, Seeger spent three years bicycling and hitch-hiking up and down the east coast doing odd jobs and singing at small parties and meetings. In 1939 he met Woody Guthrie, who led him on a western tour that covered 45 states and on which Seeger says he "learned to sing in saloons for the first time...
Also on exhibition is Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" on the strength of which T. S. Eliot calls Kipling "a great hymn writer." Appearing with the latter poem is Alan Seeger's '10, "I Have a Rendezvous With Death", the most during the World War while serving with the French Foreign Legion...
...Singing Country-John A. & Alan Lomax & Ruth Crawford Seeger...