Much contemporary music in melodically and harmonically chaotic to the unprepared listening ear and represents a type of expression which fails to possess the remotest apparent connection with previous experience. Nothing but an education of the musical ear can accomplish a state of tolerant receptivity to these contemporary ...

One of the most important phase of the study of the creative genius of any artist is the question of influence. There is little evidence to support the once popular conception of an artists, poet, or musician as a solitary, unsocial being who deliberately isolates himself from the artistic production of his own and previous ...

Relics are the bodies of the saints or objects directly connected with them or with our Lord. The council of Trent, 1545-1563, sums up the doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning relics, stating in Session XXV that the bodies of the saints are to be venerated by the faithful. According to the common opinion of theologians, ...

Little research has been carried out on the status of the Negro worker in the Pacific Northwest. The small percentage of the total population represented in this group and the fact that its members are scattered over so many occupations in such few numbers probable explains this absence of attention by students of labor ...

Since the attainment of the independence of the Latin American republics, the state of mind of the Western continent relative to international relations has been radically different from that of the Old World. The American conception has been one of a community rather than of a fortuitous geographical group of states. In the ...

The author in this Thesis is endeavoring to outline the basic divisions of the physical education work at the Bellingham Senior High School. This school has a population of approximately 1700 students. This outline is done with the object of briefly, but definitely describing the philosophy underlying the physical education ...

The purpose of this paper is to outline the development of anti-slavery sentiment among Colonial Pennsylvania Quakers. A pure chronological treatment of this development would present such a conglomeration of activities from different sources as to make it quite difficult to see the contributions of the individual Quaker ...

Students of French and German literature, and particularly of the origins of French Romanticism, lay much stress on the so-called "Wertherfievre" which raged in France after the first translations of Goethe's Werther appeared; it seems to have made itself felt in every aspect of French leisure society. "Wertherisme" was seen ...

The last big storm of winter began blowing on the seventeenth of March. It blew hard all that day and night, and the next day the wind went away, but the snow continued falling until almost dark. The forest took it without protest, the snow bending the shaggy limbs of trees with the weight of its soft mantle. Up on the summits ...

Shelley's last long poem, the "Triumph of Life," was written at Lerici, on the Bay of Spezzia, in the spring and summer of 1822, the last year of Shelley's life. Of those days at Lerici and of the writing of the "Triumph of Life" Mrs. Shelley wrote: In the wild hut beautiful bay of Spezzia, the winds and waves which he loved ...