Department of Science, Art and Literature: Hearings Before the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 161 páginas |
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American artists ARCHITECTS architecture authors and composers beautiful believe bill broadcasting Buck building bureaus CHAIRMAN children's theater CLERK COLDEN Committee on Patents concerts conductor Congress cultural CUNNINGHAM DALY Deems Taylor department of arts Department of Science director drama DUNN EDWIN FAIRFAX NAULTY encourage Ernest Schelling establishment Europe Federation of Music gentlemen give Government hearings HERBERT WITHERSPOON House of Representatives institutions interest Joint Resolution June KNERR KRAMER LAWRENCE TIBBETT literature material ment Miss PONSELLE Music Clubs musicians national theater opera companies Opera House organization Paul Althouse PAUL SPECHT play present President produced project supervisor proposed Department radio SCHELLING schools Sigmund Romberg Sigmund Spaeth singers SIROVICH song Stadt Theater stage STATEMENT STILLMAN-KELLEY subsidized symphony orchestra Teatro Thank Theater Municipal things thought tion United Victor Herbert Washington write York City York Philharmonic Orchestra
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Página 72 - ... for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Página 106 - Kelley, to give so much patience and time for the purposes of helping this committee formulate a new bill, and in behalf of the committee of which I have the honor to be the chairman, I want to thank you, and, through you, all the charming ladies who have gone to great trouble to come from these various States to present their thought to our committee, and I assure you it will not be in vain.
Página 59 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Página 2 - Literature, who shall be a Member of the Cabinet of the President of the United States of America and that to such Department of Science, Art, and Literature...
Página 79 - MR, SPECHT: I have your letter, but I cannot see any prospect of my getting away from Cincinnati. I had hoped to be in Chicago this week, but conditions here make it impossible for me to leave. I shall be glad to see you if you go through Cincinnati on your way home. I hardly know what to tell you about the matter in hand, because I think there are many things to be considered. Of course, I have thought much about a national conservatory, just as Walter Damrosch and some other very prominent men...
Página 107 - ... been trying to phrase these great conditions which embrace all the past and all the future, ever since the world began. In conflict, therefore, with all past history the oration can have little hope of originality, and the temptation to borrow has sometimes been found to be irresistible. If we ever learn to treat the living with the tenderness with which we instinctively treat the dead, we shall then have a civilization well worth distributing.
Página 32 - ... New York Academy of Sciences has appointed a Committee to secure concert of action among those who are anxious that adequate preparations may be made for the meeting. « IN his speech at the Royal Academy banquet, Prof. Huxley offered some suggestive and interesting remarks on the relations between science on the one hand and art and literature on the other. " I imagine, he said, "that it is the business of the artist and of the man of letters to reproduce and fix forms of imagination to which...
Página 83 - It is fundamentally unrelated to us as far as its end is concerned. The attitude of the artist is the contemplation of a thing for its own excellence. Art and love of beauty is essentially the most disinterested activity possible to humanity. But this is the thing that is so difficult to drive home in the case of the self-centered person. This does not mean that we do not take a delight in beauty. Quite the reserve: the delight is one of the highest that we can experience; but we must not put the...
Página 35 - I agree thoroughly with you in the opinion, quoting in part from page 2 of the printed resolution, that "man shall not live by bread alone", that "there is more to life and living than the solely material things of existence ", that " without vision the people perish ", and that " ideals and thought and action thereon are as essential to the promotion of the general welfare of the people as are the things of substance.
Página 61 - And it seems to me that time has come in our history when we are a powerful Nation economically, if not the most powerful, and we are powerful in every respect except artistically, and now is the time to develop our art. The CHAIRMAN. And apropos of that, Mr. Tibbett, as you might remember, when our Constitution was formulated by our forebears, article 1, section 8, paragraph 8 of the Constitution of the United States states " that Congress shall have the power * * * to promote the progress of science...