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...week, by the Boston Symphony. Few great virtuosi have written important music, particularly for instruments not their own. (Notable exception is Pianist Serge Rachmaninoff who has written extensively for both orchestra and voice.) Most of them cannot forget their audiences long enough, cannot help working for effects to the detriment of the musical substance. People well acquainted with the playing of Zimbalist, with Zimbalist himself, might have known that he would not fall into that error. His Daphnis and Chloe was simply wrought, unobtrusively lovely in the way the alto flute introduced the shepherds, then let the cellos...
...Tokyo a secret note was sent by Secretary of State Stimson. Japanese sent a secret reply, also charged publicly that a League of Nations representative in Shanghai has spent $120,000 Mex. ($30.000) in the past few weeks cabling the Chinese Government's point of view to the detriment of Japan...
...spite of Jefferson's carefully elaborated theory of democratic education, America, in the name of the equality of men, has allowed her higher institutions of learning, her secondary schools, colleges and universities alike, to be clogged with a mass of reluctant, if not inferior minds, to the detriment of the best and with comparatively little advantage to the worst material there congregated. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University was recently reported as stating that 78 per cent of the college students of Columbia--undergraduates--remain in Columbia University or go to some other university for graduate and professional study...
...protection. Such inference is entirely unfounded for no one of the officers of the American Bond & Mortgage Co. knows Vice President Curtis, or even met him. Furthermore, the inference that the American Bond & Mortgage Co., or any of its officials had acquired properties financed by the company to the detriment of the bondholders, is likewise without justification, for the American Bond & Mortgage Co. took over properties only when the owners were unable to meet the obligations to the bondholders and it then invested its own money in the properties for the purpose of protecting the bondholders...
...book becomes interesting but unreliable because no one can predict on so vast a scale and expect to be believed. However, the weighing of the respective strengths and weaknesses of socialism and capitalism is particularly good and saves this last part of the work from becoming a distinct detriment...