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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This comment is particularly relevant in view of Captain henry's recent recommendation that oarsmen ride bicycles to and from the boat houses...
...convention week were made by Albert Parker Fitch, famed preacher and ex-professor of Amherst. Dr. Fitch said that schoolboys and college boys were stupid. They swear, said he, and read immoral books and athleticize themselves and are remarkably bad. This speech received most of the press-comment. Said the press, in effect: "Once we listened to Dr. Fitch as the great Jeremiah of our age, but he begins to talk too loud. The louder he talks the less we listen...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme Schumann-Heink will sing songs of Mozart, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven and Wagner. To comment on Mme. Schumann-Heink's artistry would be superfluous...
...specific--which is the delight of Dr. Fitch.--the college youths read "frothy stories". One might comment that Dr. Fitch's adjective was chosen with admirable restraint. And "they are strong on college games, gassip and athletics." This is nothing but pure flattery. It was intended, no doubt to salve the sting of the arrows. "They regard their professors with a mild and benevolent indifference." This at any rate goes too far. There is certainly nothing the college man would rather do; but, except with a few exceedingly superior persons, this ambition has been but lamely realized. It is much...
...which might never have been suspected in former days, and moreover that the public can be taught to discriminate, and to appreciate,--which is equally important. However, the extraordinary success which the Glee Club has enjoyed in America does not make this compliment from abroad less gratifying; the favorable comment of the Times will enhance the enviable reputation which the Glee Club won for itself on its European trip of three years...