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...earliest and most effective blows struck for the University was not long ago when a school was closed up due to infringement of copy-right of a professor's book. This is apparently the sole means of attack left to the University at the moment. While it may be effective against bureaus selling notes on books, this attack is ineffective against general course coverage through lectures and such. For the legal status of copy-rights on lectures is in doubt...
...earliest and greatest of nationalist composers was the late Edvard Hagerup Grieg of Norway, whose best biography to date was published last fortnight.* Born in 1843, while Norway was the weaker partner in a union with Sweden, Composer Grieg spent his student days in Germany, where he was influenced by the music of German Romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn. But all his classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world...
...earliest issues of the first edition of "North of Boston," published in 1914, are also in the exhibit...
...lived in this vicinity and held a post as second principal violin in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after which he resigned to devote himself to composition. He was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, in 1861, coming to America as a young composer-violinist. He is one of the earliest exponents of Impressionism in America, but his feeling for melodic line is too strong to identify him exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention. His harmonies are bold and original; the dissonances resulting from free polyphony rather than arbitrary...
This afternoon the Ambassador will inspect the special exhibits in Widener Library which have been set up in his honor. The collection includes the most important French books belonging to the University along with others lent by collectors, the earliest of which was made in 1380. He will also visit Fogg Museum where there is a display of French paintings and drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries...