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When Yale Music Historian Leo Schrade came across the faded parchment, which had lain unnoticed for years in a dusty stack at the university's Branford College Library, he spotted, above the Latin words from Jeremiah (Lamentations 3: 13-34), the spidery hooks, loops and slashes of the ancient musical-note symbols called neumes. * The sheet resembled the earliest known neumatic documents, but was probably at least 100 years older. Yale's Latin Professor Clarence Mendell had bought the document in 1938 from London's E. P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd. Experts traced it back to Luxeuil, after...
...Branford College had paid about $100 for the fragment. Now, if it were for sale, a fair asking price would be $15,000. Professor Schrade rescued his treasure from the dust, had it cleaned, photographed and installed in an air-conditioned basement vault. Probably no one will ever know what it sounds like; scholars have not succeeded in transcribing the old neumes into modern notation...
Adams defeated Leverett, 12 to 0, yesterday to tie Dunster for the House football championship. But the Gold Coasters then lost a coin toss and Dunster will be the team to play Yale's champion Branford College here Friday...
...soccer, Leverett and Kirkland will clash in a play-off at 2:30 today to determine who will meet Yale's Branford College Friday. Leverett, yesterday, defeated last year's soccer champion, Lowell, 2-1, tying Kirkland's 6-1 record...
...each college. Under the old system, which resembles the Harvard house plan, freshmen in groups of up to 12 could apply to any house of their choice. Invariably 60 to 70 percent of past Yale classes have bid for one of three socially elite colleges, Davenport, Calhoon, or Branford...