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Item 1936 Commencement Remarks by President Leigh (1936-06-06) Leigh, Robert DevoreItem 1937 Opening Commencement Remarks by President Leigh(1937-06-12) Leigh, Robert DevoreThe opening remarks of President Leigh at the 1937 degree-conferring ceremony.Item Bennington College Magazine Minutes(Bennington College, 1940-06-04) Leigh, Robert DevoreItem Bennington-Bard Connection: Correspondence Series Between Robert Leigh and C. Harold Gray(Bennington College, 1940-03-19) Leigh, Robert Devore; Gray, C. HaroldI hope we can promote closer relations between Bard and Bennington. Just now, the most specific means would be meetings between representatives of the Bennington divisions and the divisions here.....Item Commission on Religion(1933-03-21) Leigh, Robert DevoreThe two page report outlines Leigh's charge to the Commission on Religion to, "make a statement of the policy of the College in regard to religion" and outlines the work that has been done in the first year of the College regarding religion.Item Cooperative Store License(Bennington College, 1940-06-15) Leigh, Robert DevoreItem Correspondence between Dr. Leigh and R.L. Duffus(1936-04-08) Leigh, Robert Devore; Duffus, R.L.Correspondence letters between Dr. Leigh and R.L. Duffus, the latter researching for a journal article about high school and college graduations.Item Correspondence Between Robert Leigh and Jere Abbott, Director of the Smith College Museum of Art(Bennington College, 1935-04-11) Abbott, Jere; Leigh, Robert DevoreItem Correspondence Between Robert Leigh and Lewis Webster Jones(Bennington College, 1942-01-29) Jones, Lewis Webster; Leigh, Robert DevoreItem Correspondence regarding The Symposium on Modernism in the Arts(1933-04) Leigh, Robert Devore; Randall, John Herman Jr.; Fineman, IrvingItem The Functioning of the College Program(1932-12-06) Leigh, Robert DevorePresident Leigh’s talk on the “Functioning of the College Program” presented at the Community Meeting on December 6, 1932. Leigh outlined his discussion of the functioning of the College plan into the following parts: the counselor system, attendance and obligations, use of the winter period, description of work of the Junior Division, problem of passing from the first two years to the last two years, granting of the degree and non-resident term NRT.Item Letter from President Leigh to Walter Stewart(Bennington College, 1940-07-30) Leigh, Robert DevoreItem Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh to Peter Drucker(Bennington College, 1940-08-29) Leigh, Robert DevoreLetter from President Leigh to Peter Drucker about the upcoming appointment of Polanyi, at Drucker's recommendation, to Bennington College as an Honorary Fellow.Item Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh to Peter Drucker(Bennington College, 1940-09-25) Leigh, Robert DevoreLetter from President Leigh to Peter Drucker discussing Drucker's part in upcoming lectures. Polanyi is in the midst of giving a series of five lectures when this letter is sent.Item Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh to Jacques Barzun(1936-03-27) Leigh, Robert DevoreCorrespondence between Jacques Barzun and Bennington College President Robert Devore Leigh regarding Barzun's participation in The Art that Pays, a series of discussions held at Bennington College in April and May of 1936. The intent of the series was to analyze contemporary popular arts "which have developed from the modern methods of machine reproduction and the resulting cheap, widespread distribution through such agencies as the movies, the radio and the power press...these arts will inevitably seen in comparison with the great or classic traditional art in each field and with the experimental contemporary forms discussed four years ago" in the 1933 symposium on Modernism in the Arts.Item Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh to Jacques Barzun(1936-03-02) Leigh, Robert DevoreCorrespondence between Jacques Barzun and Bennington College President Robert Devore Leigh regarding Barzun's participation in The Art that Pays, a series of discussions held at Bennington College in April and May of 1936. The intent of the series was to analyze contemporary popular arts "which have developed from the modern methods of machine reproduction and the resulting cheap, widespread distribution through such agencies as the movies, the radio and the power press...these arts will inevitably seen in comparison with the great or classic traditional art in each field and with the experimental contemporary forms discussed four years ago" in the 1933 symposium on Modernism in the Arts.Item Letter from President Robert Devore Leigh to Mary Sanford(1932-05-03) Leigh, Robert DevoreRegarding Mary Sanford's offer to donate a bell for the cupola in Commons.Item Letter to John Dewey planning a visit in October 1934(1934-08-21) Leigh, Robert DevoreItem Memorandum on The Art that Pays series.(1936-02-28) Leigh, Robert DevoreThe Art that Pays was a series of discussions held at Bennington College in April and May of 1936. The intent of the series was to analyze contemporary popular arts "which have developed from the modern methods of machine reproduction and the resulting cheap, widespread distribution through such agencies as the movies, the radio and the power press...these arts will inevitably seen in comparison with the great or classic traditional art in each field and with the experimental contemporary forms discussed four years ago" in the 1933 symposium on Modernism in the Arts.Item Opening remarks by Robert Devore Leigh, President of Bennington College, at the occasion of breaking ground for Bennington College (1931-08-16) Leigh, Robert Devore