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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vestale, they announced at the bidding of him who held the strings, will open the season on the evening of Nov. 1. Rosa Ponselle will be the lovely Vestal to abandon the sacred fire for an earthly lover; Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, the Warrior who dares to violate the sanctity of the Temple; Basso Ezio Pinza the Pontiff Maximus brought by the infuriated mob to condemn the guilty priestess to a living death. He will strip her of her white robe, leave it on the altar and cover her with a black one, blacker than any sin. Margarete Matzenauer will...
Moreover, the students have given birth to this belated child. A mother can not abandon her new-born babe. Thus, it is only natural that these pious young men should play the part of nurse, at least, if only to save themselves from any appearance of hypocrisy. The large attendance at chapel exercists, then, is not even astounding. It is merely the natural course of events. The numbers will without double decrease. The bridge players will be able to enjoy their name without interruption...
...this situation, Yale has been compelled to abandon hockey for this winter, according to a statement made tonight by H. F. Woodcock, general manager of the Yale Athletic Association. It was concluded at a recent meeting attended by Laurence Noble, hockey captain; Herbert Walker, manager; E. S. Bronson, chairman of the graduate hockey committee; and Clarence Wanamaker, coach of hockey; that it would be usless to attempt another season of outside hockey competition without local practice because trips to New York, Princeton, Boston and other points for practice are detrimental to the players. Therefore, there will be no Freshman...
...rights that she was with difficulty persuaded to quit Buckingham Palace, and virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred to the Queen Mother Alexandra-born to reign if ever mortal was-that she should abandon Sandringham to a king-emperor who was, after all, her son. Filially meek, George V and his consort were content to dwell at York Cottage, on the fringe of Sandringham, whenever they sojourned with "the Queen"* in Norfolk...
...even the less pleasant Mr. Dreiser has more faithfully or thoroughly described an everyday U. S. scene. It is powerful, compelling reading, a book for a high place in U. S. literature. It is particularly welcome in that Dorothy Canfield is not among those realists who feel obliged to abandon sound prose to get an "effect." The Author. In Europe they regard Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher as a ranking U. S. writer, one broadened by a cosmopolitan life but never apologetic for her Kansas origin. When she was a high school girl in Lawrence, Kan., a dashing young Army officer...