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...Toscanini's bad luck that twentieth-century Italian music has been the flat vapid stuff it has been, but that doesn't justify his perversity in cluttering up programs with it when there is really great modern music to be played. And John Barbirolli, who has no other axe to grind but the Enigma Variations and an occasional Delius prelude, persists in offering the dryest, most academic manuscripts he can find as samples of modern culture...
...closing, Ross observes, "the problems of adapting a university to the hard facts of restricted income, and at the same time developing a brilliant Faculty, are enormously complicated ones, involving that most delicate human factor--morale and cannot be solved with an axe...
According to a story published in a Dallas, Texas, newspaper, Trotsky's impending disposition of his archives was resented by former colleagues and friends of the exiled leader. The unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him by machine-gun fire, which preceded the recent axe-murder by three months was described in the Dallas report as the outcome of this smoldering resentment...
...Government Department that got the cruellest blow when the axe fell on ten assistant professors last June. For a long time it limped along painfully, its staff pared to the bone, trying to handle one of the biggest enrollments in the College. Lately it has been getting back on its feet, but Professor Holcombe, head of the Department, still has his heart set on another permanent appointee, and he deserves one. Accordingly, he has picked up his wheel of fortune; around and around she goes, and where she will stop, nobody knows. But the needle is quivering in the direction...
...answer is No. Students, admittedly, didn't know all the facts and figures. Nor did most of them want to. All they knew was that ten brilliant men had been pinched off between the slide-rule and the axe, and would leave great gaps that could never he filled by renumbering courses. Take the English Department, for example. Four assistant professors were given terminating appointments last spring. All are here now Presumably two will lock up their brief-cases for the last time this spring, two more in June, 1941. This year these men are giving eight half-course...