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President Conant's introductory address to the Class of '45 has been scheduled for November 12 at 7:15 in the dining hall of the Union. True to custom, the talk will be informal and the topic will not be announced before hand...
...lute (called al'ud in Arabic) originated in the Near East, where Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Greeks still play it. It was suggested to the legendary son of Methuselah by the sight of the skeleton leg of his own dead son, whose body he had suspended (it was the custom) from a tree. The lute's body represented the thighbone, its long neck, the leg bone; its bent head, the foot; its tuning pegs, the toes; its strings, the dried veins fluttering from the bones. The lute was the great instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance until...
...only a tradition in himself, he was also the transmitter of a tradition. His custom of welcoming graduate students while sitting on the steps of Warren House on the morning of the opening of college, his spelling of "Shakespeare", his confining of English 2 to the study of six of Shakespeare's plays all these things he inherited from Professor F. J. Child, who was his master, and for whom he had a devoted admiration. To the end of his life he cherished the high words of praise with which Professor Child had saluted the beginning of his career...
...striking proof that a regular reviewer need not necessarily degenerate into a facile purveyor of snap judgments and hopeful guesses. He was the first--and, I think, the only-- reviewer to offer an annual mea culpa to his readers; and while he explains his introduction of this custom rather cynically in terms of space-filling rather than conscientiousness, his reader may reserve judgment...
Another departure from custom which would set John and his seventeenth century friends to revolving in their coffins is the reference to college as "school." Harvard's educational standards may have slipped in the past few years, but there is as yet no justification for confusing the undergraduate department of the University with an elementary institution. Let us remember that it is college which is opening this week, not school, and let us head for classes Wednesday with our voices raised, just slightly, in the traditional Harvard cry, "For God, for country, and for the unsplit infinitive...