Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raised under the slogan: " A bronze bruno for Brown." The statue is being modeled from an exceptionally intelligent beast in the New York Zoo. Yale is threatened with a similar totem of the dog. Princeton is to have a live tiger. But Harvard has never really taken to the donkey. She prefers John Harvard, a square-toed young Puritan of a species which has no living representatives for photography or sculpture...
...headliner", of course, was Saint-Saens' widely heralded "Carnaval des Animaux", strangely enough it fulfilled, even exceeded the high expectations of its hearers. With such economy of means, with never a descent to mere noise, with real beauty, Saint-Saens skips from hen's cackle to donkey's bray, from pianists; technical studies to carping critics' chatter; a masterful piece cl work, and eloquently played. From double-bass to flute the orchestra was superb, Mr. Bedetti, as usual, standing out as a supreme artist. May we not hear their fine sketches again this year...
...more recent picture, taken in 1900, shows John, the orangeman's cart, and donkey. The transformation which has taken place around the college during the last thirty-five years is seen in a picture of the Square in 1885. The square looks very quiet with only a few teams and a couple of horse-cars in sight...