Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes. Every one will agree with Professor Babbitt up to a certain point. Some will become disciples, and others will lay more stress on those sides of literature to which he, on his own admission and intention, does not do justice. The lectures tend to become repetitious; a bit too much time is spent on Rousscan's Confessions; but the course on the whole is a stimulating one and one of the very best advocated in the little green pamphlet. Whether they sit at his feet, or whether they learn from him by "intellectual repulsion," the one thing students cannot...
...develop his interest in old ecclesiastical music. He teaches at the American Conservatory of Music, where he put in his own first serious study. Eastern audiences are better acquainted with the music of Howard Hanson. Composer Sowerby's Rochester friend, but discriminating midwesterners regard Sowerby as every bit Hanson's equal, an opinion which many a New Yorker heartily indorsed last week after listening to Prairie...
...students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller was as usual selling .5% beer and chocolate milk shakes, while students clamored for 3.2% beer as soon as possible. President Fred H. Clausen...
When the delicate business of rounding up Hoovercrats was begun during the 1928 Presidential campaign, a good bit of work was intrusted to Colonel Horace A. Mann, a bristly-haired Tennessee lawyer (no kin to Pioneer Educator Horace Mann) who had played poker with President Harding...
...were wandering around the halls. A piano specialty was perfectly executed, but more familiar selections might be suggested as more likely to entertain. A scene "Design for Living," haunted by the spirit of Noel Coward, was good enough to be enlarged upon. A. D. Cadman '35 contributed a brilliant bit as safari...