Laura Brey’s poster calls on middle and upper class men (such as the students and faculty of Hopkins) to enlist. In it, a man in a suit stands in a shadowy room, pensively watching a bright and bold military display outside.
Leah Thorpe, Dean of the Preparatory, submitted a plan for integrating the Preparatory Department over the course of four years. This plan paralleled a similar model used by the Friends School, a private school nearby, but was not adopted at Peabody.
In this letter, Louise J. Cooper, a member of the Peabody Institute Board of Trustees and the Conservatory Committee, responds to William Marbury with her opinion on the admission of Paul A. Brent to the Conservatory.