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...Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"Mozart *"Unfinished" Symphony, in B minor Schubert Second Movement--Andante con moto *Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner "La Nuit Revecue" ("The Night Relieved") (After the Poem, "Senlin" by Conrad Aiken) Bainbridge Crist *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"Merry Widow," Waltzes Lehar *"Deep River," Negro Spiritual Arr. by Jacchia *Procession of Bacchus from "Sylvia" Delibes Selections checked '(*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...important did Soviet authorities con-sider the case last week that Chief Public Prosecutor André Vishinsky conducted it himself. Though Semenchuk cried shrilly that he was a visitor from Mars, manifested other symptoms of madness. Prosecutor Vishinsky was clearly out to make Wrangel's Governor an example to other remote Red bosses prone to autocracy...
...proletariat echo and re-echo from the cavernous walls of Randolph and Russell like raging surf. Even the toffs, ensconced high above, share in the racing fever, as Budweiser can chases Ballantine and Croft madly down the street. These preliminary races, according to track veterans, may send Con. or Am. Can to record highs on the exchange, as the relative merits of the steeds are discovered. The dark blue of Pabst has not yet proved itself a winning color over the dappled brown of Scotch Ale, and upsets by unknowns may occur momentarily, according to the best advices...
Herbert Hoover had hardly been elected by his Stanford mates as the "graduate most likely to succeed." In college he had managed a student laundry and a newspaper agency. He had flunked German and English in the entrance exams, and didn't write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...
Summary of Concentrators comments on men in the German Department: Walz, Howe, Lieder, Cawley older men in the department who are authorities in their field but tend to be rather uninspiring to undergraduates as lecturers. Starck--clear lecturer, con- genial. Heffner--stimulating, gives the literary angle. Nolte--good tutor (especially for divisional), knows his literature, material somewhat disorganized in German 6. Herrick--stimulating personality. Hawkes--progressive, interesting, good in composition courses. Cross--brilliant and interesting, the power of the Department. Vietor--good lecturer. Shelley--good younger tutor