Finding Their Voices - Amherst College

This opportunity seems to have particularly inspired Dwight, as later that month
he published a much longer article on the subject. As it is relevant to this study, I quote
the article in its entirety:
In an unusual dearth of musical topics on which to discourse to our readers, we
are reminded, by the notice in our last number of the music performed at the
Commencement exercises at Cambridge, that one of the objects which the
Harvard Musical Association proposed to itself at its foundation, as one way of
testifying in appropriate form its gratitude to Alma Mater, was the foundation, at
some future time, of a Musical Professorship. We have often thought of this
project, and speculated whether the good time had come when this plan might be
carries into effect; and now let us try the efficacy of what Punch calls "thinking
aloud," and see what may come of it.
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