Word: ado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lampy last night looked with favor upon 12 Sophomores. Juniors, and Seniors and after much ado admitted the men into its sacred sanctum. Three men were admitted to the business departments Lement. Upham Harris '26 of Tuxedo Park, New York; John Davis Williams Morrill '26 of Dedham; and Luther Herbert Wood '25 of Greenfield. The remaining nine men were admitted to the arts department: Almon Goodwin Cooke '26 of New York City: John de Courcy '24 of Boston; George Ross Leighton of Dalton. Pennsylvania New York: Francis Boutell Turner '26 of Waltham: Talbot Wegg of Chicago, Itlinois William Dudley Livingston...
...severe test of his powers. It contained not only the usual sonata and concerto--in this case Handel's Sonata in D major and the Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5 in A minor--but also a Chaconne of Bach and a Suite by Korngold, incidental music to "Much Ado About Nothing". This latter occupied much of the place usually given to the "nugae canores" which were therefore reduced to two, a Nocturne of Chopin and Jota by Sarasate...
...result, there are those in the faculty, and there always will be, who will be sniffing suspiciously at this lusty growth, which seems to them at times to be threatening the parent tree. At times the suspicion that something is wrong becomes a conviction and then there is much ado for a time, as the most alarmed of the faculty vent their wrath against manager or player...