Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Burk shows knowledge and obvious sympathy with the music of Sibelius, who is, however, now appreciated as he should be--except, as Mr. Burk points out, in New York. While this article is at times marred by a few slight immaturities of style--such as the rather patronizing attempt to give the readers advice as to the appreciation of Sibelius--it is nevertheless interesting and distinctly worth while...
...Damon's essay on Strindberg, Schonberg, and Sibelius is praisworthy as an attempt to relate the arts, and also to help the reader to appreciate two ultra-modern composers, both of whom deserve enthusiasm. But this method of treatment, although conventional, is so frankly subjective that it seems ultra fantastic and amateurish. It is nevertheless interesting to those who received impressions of the music totally different from those expressed by Mr. Damon here. It is stimulating in that it is entirely subjective; but one must always remember that it is Mr. Damon who is speaking and not Schonberg, Strindberg...
...annual concert tonight the Pierian Sodality announces a program singularly well chosen and well balanced. The music is of a type that few amateur orchestras in the country would care to attempt. The Pierian Sodality, for its earnest and long continued efforts to bring good music before the College, deserves the heartiest support of the undergraduate body. Those who are at all musically inclined will be amply repaid for attending this evening's performance...
...which he believes is deserving of all praise. But there is another patriotism which is harder to give because it has no drum beating accompaniment, because those who give their lives in its cause do not today die heroes. It is a patriotic sacrifice which is not merely the attempt to prevent an evil already done from going further, as is that of the volunteer soldier, but one which is at least a constructive beginning towards preventing the need for making such sacrifices at all. Why should not the inspiration of the present war call forth a practical patriotism...
When questioned on his view of Harvard's attempt to have the Massachusetts legislature pass a law permitting the University full use of its crimson banner in all public demonstrations, Arthur Giovannitti, syndicalist leader, stated that the I. W. W. would fight such a privilege to the University. Giovannitti declared that such legislation would be for a class only and not fair...