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...animal husbandry in the 20th Century as much as was done for crop farming in the 19th Century by the invention of agricultural machinery." It was written by a rich, disputatious, immensely learned old gentleman named E. (for Ezra) Parmelee Prentice, who is a son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller...
...program consists of the following selections: "The Heavens Are Telling (The Creation)" by Haydn; "Miserere" by Allegri; "The Nightingale" by Weekes; Two Choruses from "L' Allegro" by Handel; "O Gladsome Light" by Archibald T. Davison '06, former conductor of the Glee Club; "O Light Everlasting" (Cantata 34) by Bach; "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst; From the Realm of Souls Departed" by Gluck; "Brennan on the Moor" a Somerset folk song; "Hunt the Wren" an Isle of Man folk song; "The Arkansaw Traveller" an American frontier song" "Spanish Ladies" as English folk song; and "Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov...
...Harvard Glee Club will sing alone: "My Bonny Lass," by Morley; "O Gladsome Light," by Archibald T. Davison '06, a former conductor of the Glee Club; "Spanish Ladies," an English folk song; "Brennan on the Moor," an English folk song; and the following choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe": "With Strephon for Your Foe", "Henceforth Strephon," "I'm very Much Pained," and "A Shepherd...
Last week President Frederick Trubee Davison of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History opened his institution to the first big U. S. exhibition of Soviet education, sponsored by the American Russian Institute. Most newsworthy exhibit was not the school models, not the illiteracy charts, not the pictures of Soviet youngsters at work and play, but photographs of a school which only Russia could have, the Technicum of Circus...
...contemporary of John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Russell Sage, John Andrus made his first dollar selling a mess of fresh-caught trout to Horace Greeley, who, angling near the Andrus farm in Pleasantville, N. Y., feared to return empty handed to the editorial offices of the New York Tribune. Like most of the shrewd men who reaped richly from the U. S. industrial expansion of the 19th Century, Andrus did not hotfoot for the front in the Civil War. He caught pneumonia drilling in the rain at Hartford, Conn., was promptly discharged from the Army...