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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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46. skillful were particularly in adept at learning mechanical techniques, and balked at mastering mechanical devices. After seventeen lessons of no great progress my tremendous struggles were being realized, the interest to have me go forward was abandoned and I was permitted to discontinue. In spite of this I have always had a great love of music and wanted badly to study voice. The opportunity presented itself and I made the necessary time for practice during the days of my high-school career. I enjoyed singing tremendously and was vastly interested and thoroughly happy in it - so much in fact, that I had ambitions to go on with music at the University and combine it with painting. Such combination, I feel, would have been particularly fortunate for me. However, the scheme - idealistic as it was - did not fit into the picture of a Bachelor of Arts with a Graphic and Plastic Fine Arts major. Furthermore if it would have adjusted itself to the course, I did not have the necessary and additional money for it. My high-school scholarship was for the Liberal Arts College. The fees of
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46. skillful were particularly in adept at learning mechanical techniques, and balked at mastering mechanical devices. After seventeen lessons of no great progress my tremendous struggles were being realized, the interest to have me go forward was abandoned and I was permitted to discontinue. In spite of this I have always had a great love of music and wanted badly to study voice. The opportunity presented itself and I made the necessary time for practice during the days of my high-school career. I enjoyed singing tremendously and was vastly interested and thoroughly happy in it - so much in fact, that I had ambitions to go on with music at the University and combine it with painting. Such combination, I feel, would have been particularly fortunate for me. However, the scheme - idealistic as it was - did not fit into the picture of a Bachelor of Arts with a Graphic and Plastic Fine Arts major. Furthermore if it would have adjusted itself to the course, I did not have the necessary and additional money for it. My high-school scholarship was for the Liberal Arts College. The fees of
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