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...Think as few original thoughts as possible. It's collegiate to bull the prof. into a B when you rated a D. It's collegiate to sleep in lectures, crib in exams, copy themes, and get by. It's collegiate to prefer an Afro-American fox trot to a Beethoven sonata. Ah, by all means let's be collegiate. None of the herd will raise shocked hands and say begone miserable, radical, pink socialist...
...Coolidge spent a busy day. At eleven in the morning she wen t with Mrs. Butler, wife of the Senator from Massachusetts, to attend a Beethoven program at the Library of Congress. At a quarter of one she called on President Coolidge and induced him to enroll in the Red Cross. He made out a check for $25* and she pinned a Red Cross button on his lapel. At a quarter of two she received 75 women attending a convention of the Young Men's Christian Association...
Before a great company of notables the new Steinway Hall, Manhattan, was opened last week. Willem Mengelberg conducted 35 Philharmonic players through the tonal roast beef of Beethoven's "Dedication of the House"; Josef Hofmann exquisitely played his own "Sanctuary" (composed under the name of Dvorsky); millions listened on the radio. Among the guests, with bustling pride, moved four gentlemen who have made their money in the piano business-Henry, Theodore, William, Frederick Steinway (TIME, June 29), grandsons of the original Heinrich Steinweg...
Professor D. F. Tovey, Red Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh will speak tonight at Paine Hall in the Music Building. His subject will be "Beethoven's Ninth symphony, and the speech will be accompanied by pianoforte illustrations. The lecture will be given at 8.15 o'clock, under the suspices of the Division of Music...
...Ninth Symphony has not been heard in Boston since the Glee Club took part in the last performance, the 1924 performance under M. Monteux. M. Monteux, while he was conductor of the Boston Symphony, acquired an international reputation through his rendition of this work of Beethoven," said Mr. Judd, Assistant Manager of Symphony Hall, in a statement to the CRIMSON. "Recognized as one of Beethoven's very greatest works, it is heard perhaps the least of all, owing to the difficult problem presented in its production...