Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much caution the flery reform policy of Roosevelt, his friend and predecessor. Nevertheless, the qualities that he lacked as a leader were more than amply balanced by his devotion to public welfare outside of personal reward and his firm interpretation of the National Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background of national affairs his death destroys a vital link between past and present...
...hundred and twenty millions of people in the United States, only thirty-five thousand are full-blooded communists. Besides, a role, however small, in the mass of homogeneous humanity herded like-driven cattle from city hall to the canyons of city streets provides a release from the hum-drum routine of every day life. When the best of all possible worlds is achieved it surely will not lack dissenters...
...African Drum Dance...
Both clubs will sing several numbers unassisted while they will combine in three selections. The Harvard Glee Club will sing the following numbers:- "Meye Have Bereaved", by Morales; "Drake's Drum", by Coleridge-Taylor; "Marching", by Brahms; and "Dirge for Two Veterans", by Holst. The songs for mixed voice are as follows: "The Heart That's Contented", "May No Rash Intruder", and "The Foolish Lover", by Halldel; "Antiphon", by Williams; and "Cantata No. 50", by Bach...