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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would make his way to the podium without attracting notice, Arturo Toscanini hurried on to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall stage last week to begin his eleventh season as conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony. One glimpse of the trim, greying little Italian and every player in the orchestra, every member of the audience, rose respectfully. After one grave little bow Toscanini turned his back, rapped sharply for attention, commanded his men to play, his audience to listen...
...Extra Session has steadily grown in popularity. About one-tenth of the men in the Extra Session are over 30 years of ago, and usually have had previous business experience. Men who graduate from colleges which operate on the "quarter" plan instead of the "somester" plan are enabled to begin graduate work without loss of time...
...move that will add zest and interest to intercollegiate hockey games played with Canadian teams, the members of the Quadrangular League have joined four Canadian College teams in forming an international intercollegiate league, to begin functioning next year...
These modern bucaneers, known as Legionaires and veterans, have only had their taste whetted by this recent legislation. Already other and more exhorbitant plans are being formulated. This outright looting of the nation has shaken many people's faith in democracy. Before the bonuseers begin another raid and shock the public conscience once again, before they start beating their tom-toms again, they would do well to reflect that it is only one step from a loss of faith in a lavish, undisciplined and unprincipled democracy to a loss of democracy itself...
...front cover) Any exhibit opening in the wake of the enormously popular van Gogh show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was bound to begin with an initial handicap. As if this were not enough, the Museum's discreet directors last week placed two additional handicaps upon the first comprehensive showing of one of its finest gift collections, simply because the Museum's principal benefactor happens to have a great name and a great modesty. Handicap No. 1 was encountered on the first floor in the form of a gigantic portrait of beefy, bewhiskered Henry Hobson...