Records of the Music Department, 1904-1959 (inclusive).

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Records of the Music Department, 1904-1959 (inclusive).

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Includes minutes, 1935-1936; correspondence of Chairman W.R. Spalding and other correspondence about Harvard and Radcliffe music libraries, plan for new music building, Friends of Music, Loeb Music Library festival, and concerts. Also plans and blueprints; grade records; informational releases; graduate student evaluations; and fundraising correspondence for volume honoring Elliot Forbes. For more detailed information about records, see Harvard Archives LOCATION below.

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Spalding, Walter R.

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Spalding graduated from Harvard in 1887 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Walter R. Spalding, ca. 1937. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973189 ...

Harvard University. Department of Music (1855-)

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A professorship in music was first proposed in 1832, but it wasn't until 1855 that Harvard's catalogue listed its first music course. The music program was developed further in the 1870s by John Knowles Paine. From the description of General information by and about the Department of Music. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 236231892 ...

Forbes, Elliot.

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Epithet: musicologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0001dd Forbes (1917-) graduated from Harvard in 1941, taught music at Harvard, and was Director of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. From the description of Papers of Elliot Forbes, 1958-1985 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973303 ...

Harvard University. Friends of Music.

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Eda Kuhn Loeb music library

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...