Writing for the viola

In response to: Going Solo

By Mihailo Voukitchevitch ’55

Published in the Oct. 08, 2008, issue

I very much enjoyed Katherine Greenwood’s article on David Carpenter ’08 (cover story, April 23). I was, however, somewhat disheartened to note the absence of mention of “Harold in Italy,” surely one of the greatest viola concertos written by that still-not-quite-respectable...

Princeton and Turkey

In response to: Marking time

By Alan W. Lukens ’46

Published in the Oct. 08, 2008, issue

Princetonians’ roots and attachment to Turkey (cover story, Sept. 24) go way back to the early missionaries of the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of these missionaries were teachers at Robert College in Istanbul, which was, for many years, the only English-language university in...

Defining architecture

In response to: Perspective

By Stephen E. Silver ’58

Published in the Oct. 08, 2008, issue

Re: “Something Old, Something New” by W. Barksdale Maynard ’88 (Perspective, Feb. 13): I am surprised that so many people, including Princetonians, harbor the mistaken idea that “Oxonian architecture” is somehow Protestant. It most certainly is not. At the time when the great...

From the Archives

In response to: From The Archives

By Amy Benton Haemel ’93

Published in the Oct. 08, 2008, issue

I can help you with at least one of the couples in the April 23 From the Archives photo. The couple on the far right are my grandparents, William “Bill” Burwell ’42 *49 and his wife, Harriett “Toni” Burwell. Since this was taken in 1946, it would be during the time that my...

The band deserves respect

By Joel Thompson ’08

Published in the Sept. 24, 2008, issue

The band deserves congratulation and commendation, not censure, for the way it handled itself in response to verbal and physical harassment at the hands of The Citadel cadets the weekend of Sept. 20. It is important to remember three key things. First, everything the band did...