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After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...
...third volume of the Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany has recently been published by the Harvard University Press. It will receive much fuller and more adequate comment in these columna at a later date, but in the meantime it seems that notice should not be emitted concerning what seems the high point of the book from a literary point of view. This is the letter to Robert Moras Love it from Maude Radford Warren giving some details of the heroie death of the former's son. In these days, even five years after...
...publish in another columna communication in which is a complaint which seems to us entirely just, a complaint concerning the action of the manager of the nine in raising the price of reserved seats from twenty-five to fifty cents. The base-ball club has never been a needy organization; in fact, it has always had more money than it could convenrently spend, and this too when reserved seats were thought to be worth only twenty-five cents. With this fact in view it is rather hard to understand the action of the present manager. Games...
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