A Winship Toast

Here’s to the Doctor,

     Long may he preside

O’er this saintly body

     With profit and pride.

And may the musical Gabriel

     Forever postpone

His meaningless tooting

     That “blast”-ed trombone.

April 23, ‘05

(This may be directed toward A.E. {Albert Edward} Winship, long time editor of The Journal of Education (Boston) and at one point President of the New England Press Association. In 1905, he wrote an often cited article entitled ‘The Mission of Music in the Public Schools’,

https://books.google.com/books?id=7kUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA630&lpg=PA630&dq=%22Journal+of+Education%22+%E2%80%98The+Mission+of+Music+in+the+Public+Schools%E2%80%99&source=bl&ots=yxbs8GSOnR&sig=nEYdfOUHyYe38UeoX0YwrOhFykE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qh0xVZ6gNcH2yQTB34GoAg&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Journal%20of%20Education%22%20%E2%80%98The%20Mission%20of%20Music%20in%20the%20Public%20Schools%E2%80%99&f=false

 in which he noted that “school music must be devotional, patriotic, intellectual, and inspirational”. [Winship, A. E. (1905/2002). The mission of music in the public schools. In M. L. Mark (Ed.), Music education: Source readings from ancient Greece to today (pp.97- 99). New York: Routledge.] http://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3618&context=etd

Bio as of 1909:

  https://books.google.com/books?id=8dDUv19AKv4C&pg=PA724&lpg=PA724&dq=Winship+Boston+1905+Twentieth+Century&source=bl&ots=EYSzFICpNX&sig=QtylYLe3A2JkSDi7fDxBBgcwzIk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zRkxVcC1M5P-yQTJr4HgAQ&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Winship&f=false

My guess, if so, is that the “saintly body” would be the Press Association?)