Word: babel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are gods many, so are there promises many. Beware, O ye Uncs., Occs., Specs, and Ad Libs., how ye seek after "wizards that peep and that mutter." Runs the proverb, "Facile est descensu--" and the makers of the Tower of Babel could not reverse it. Brilliant as the new light may be, make sure that it is not a will o the wisp whose lustre increases with the approach of death...
...then of the utmost concern that university graduates see clearly amid the fog and think straight amidst the babel of confusing voices. It sometimes seems as if no public address could attract attention today unless it constitutes a lurid arraignment of present conditions, or else a wanton attack upon some person or group of individuals. In the field of politics one who declaims of how things should be done and who promises the impossible gains a ready audience, while one who soberly recites a record of actual accomplishment is quickly brushed aside. Many men who pick up their morning papers...
...Dramatic Club takes the center of the stage. But other groups, also, are in the limelight: the Cercle Francais is presenting an interesting program of short plays, the Pi Etta musical show is in rehearsal, and the Circulo Espanol is preparing to add yet another language to the babel on our stage...
...program follows: 1. March, "El Captain" Sousa 2. Overture, "Phedre" Massenet 3. Waltz, "Artists' Life" Strauss 4. Harvard Glee Club (with orchestra) Three Pictures from the "Tower of Babel" Rubinsten 5. --From the Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Anitra's Dance. b. In the Hall of the Mountain King. 6. Excerpts from Hasty Pudding Shows: a. "Rameses" from "Barnum Was Right", 1921, A. Steinert b. "The Voodoo Dance" from "Wetward Ho" 1921, A. Steinert 7. Bacchanale (Der Venusberg) Act 1, "Tannhauser" Wagner 8. Harvard Glee Club: Love Songs Brahms Chorus of Bacchantes from "Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Cavalier Song Stanford...
...South Station at one o'clock. Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will lead the Club. The complete program is as follows: In Dulci Jubilo, Ancient German Carol O Sacrum Convivium, Viadana Miserere, Allegri Now Let Every Tongue, Bach Come Again, Sweet Love, Dowland Three Pictures from "The Tower of Babel," Rubinstein Heart-ache, Dvorak Drake's Drum, Coleridge-Taylor Now is the Month of Maying, Mosley Love Songs, Brahms Prayer of Thanksgiving, Netherlands Folk Song