The history of the Peabody Graduates' Preparatory and High School of Music founded by May Garrettson Evans in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1894 is discussed. Evans's efforts to get music to the people of Baltimore, especially the disadvantaged, are also described. (RM)

Americanization is in the end a task for the individual citizen and not for the Government. The individual can be successful in so human a problem only by having a sympathetic knowledge of this task and of those with whom he must deal. To supply at least the foundations of this knowledge is the purpose of this book. The contents are taken largely…

There are many thousands of people who are in a position to exert great influence in the work of Americanization, through their leadership or membership in State legislatures, State bureaus and departments, and State organizations, official and voluntary. The primary purpose of this book is to lay before that body of men and women some concrete…