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...major factor favoring Davison in his reform was the sober maturity of the veterans who returned from World War I impatient with the Glee Club's rowdiness. Another was the University Chapel Choir, for as Organist, he had control over repertoire. When at Christmas 1913 he introduced some Radcliffe singers into the choir, President Lowell warned him sternly not to do it again, but when the beautifully varied tone of a mixed chorus reappeared the following year, Lowell remained silent and thereafter supported Davison unswervingly...
Fortunately, however, the University still contains a small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after...
Thanks to the plenitude of its comforts, Los Alamos has a low personnel turnover-about 20 a month-and few of its nuclear specialists really believe that they will some day go home to Ann Arbor or Chapel Hill. Notes Robert Porton, an ex-Army sergeant who helped found Los Alamos' radio station: "There are still some scientists who have been around since 1943 and still talk about going home, but they don't really mean it. If they go back to the old home on vacation, they always come scurrying back here." Boyd West, the C.P.A...
...Bible-beating schools, today's Methodist colleges pride themselves on putting education ahead of religion, energetically toss out vocational courses in favor of pure liberal arts. Students of any creed are welcome; each college has full control of curriculum, and required chapel attendance and religion courses vary widely...
...piece suggests Mantegna in mood, it is closer to a modern painter in manner. "The colors," says Poulenc, "are very clear, primary colors-rude and violent like the Provence chapel of Matisse." Scored for chorus, soprano, and a sort of celestial band of horns and strings, Poulenc's 25-minute Gloria proved to be a work of sharply profiled contrasts, at times deeply reverent (in the manner of his opera Dialogues of the Carmelites), at times mischievous and almost jazzy. Among its memorable moments: the opening of the second section, "Laudamus Te," with the dissonant cry of French horns...