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...crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal, the better the instrument's tone...
...exhibition is simple, unified, fairly complete, and most important. It shows in every phase the impact of modernity on ecclesiastical art, and illustrates the first original development in artistic style since the close of the Baroque period. Models and photographs demonstrate the modern churches designed by modern architects, Boehm, Bartning, et alia. In harmony with the structures of an age which has made material more responsive to mind than ever before, and so has had undreamed of power over the abstract are the altar furniture, vestments, tapestries, stained glass and other work which completes the display. The high points...
...HANS G. BOEHM...
Professor Schumpeter is probably the most eminent living Continental economist. His reputation, however, is largely confined to workers in the field of economics; like Menger, Boehm-Bawork, Walras, Pareto, Jevons, Edgeworth, to name a few, his best work has been devoted to pure theory of a type which must ever remain a closed book to all but trained students. He may not inaptly be described as an economist's economist. As such, however, his value to the department here at Harvard is difficult to overrate. Harvard has, particularly among "the old guard", a very respectable number of scholars whose contribution...
...Katherine Winthrop of Boston and Foxcroft School: the girls' national indoor tennis tournament in Brookline, Mass., beating Hilda Boehm, top-seeded star, 6-3, 6-3 in the finals...