Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Will you allow me through your columns to call the special attention of all music lovers in the University to the course of lectures, of which the first takes place this afternoon, to be given by Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch on the instrumental music of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as developed by the English, French, Italians, Spanish, and Germans. As the announcement of the first lecture, published elsewhere in this issue, mentions, periods of particular fascination in the history of artistic culture will be treated, which are of special interest to the layman. Such periods are music among...
...contest does not call for any exceptional literary ability. Average intelligence and persistent, Conscientious work are the only essentials. Finally, for the candidates that survive and become editors there is a solid satisfaction such as only the success in a stiff competition can give...
...compulsory, and every year the senior class at Yale votes to have the custom continued. This shows that men who attend prayers regularly deem it worth the effort. While we do not approve of and would not for a moment advocate compulsory attendance at Harvard, we do wish to call the attention of the University to the fact that a short service is held in Appleton Chapel every morning at 8.45. There is some justification for this, for, as a rule, less than 100 men are scattered about the vacant pews, and the class report of 1909 shows that...
...another page in a communication is quoted an extract from the "New York Times" of recent date. In this article the conditions at Harvard are misstated. It this were merely an isolated instance of journalistic misrepresentation, it would call for no comment. However, this small news item typifies a large number of similar stories relating to Harvard in the press of the whole country. During the current year, a fiagrant instance of this sort of perversion occurred. A Cleveland paper appeared with the startling announcement that the CRIMSON had accused the football coaches of teaching the men to violate...
...prime object of a college education is commonly said to be the development of the ability to think logically and constructively. If this be true, examinations which call for something more than mere extensive knowledge of isolated facts are a far truer basis for grading students than are memory tests...