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...Eighteenth Century Symphony Orchestra gave its last concert of the season in Jordan Hall last Tuesday evening, playing music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in costume of the period of Louis Quinze. This music makes a wide appeal both to the sophisticated taste that finds in it the charm of simplicity and naive freshness and to the uninitiate who seek only for beauty of melody in what they hear...
...theory than in fact. The result of two days labor embodying six sessions of discussion was a somewhat lenghy document, which however contained several suggestions applicable to the situation in colleges with regard to prohibition. In fact it developed early in the opening session that violation of the eighteenth amendment was to be the chief subject of the various delegates. Among the suggestions to combat drinking in colleges formally ratified by the conference were propositions to approach the alumni in an effort to curtail drinking at class reunions and football games; to line up the fraternities and other undergraduate organizations...
Tuesday evening in Jordan Hall a concert by the Eighteenth Century Symphony Orchestra. The program includes selections from Boccherini, Gluck, Scarlatti, Sammartini, Haydn, Couperin and Corelli. The soloists will be Myrtle Brown, soprano, Marguerite Morgan and Gertrude D. Johnson, harpsichordists, and Katherine Nolan, organist. The program should prove a delightful change to one weary of modern cacophony as well as to the student of the history of music...
...nation wide movement in American colleges in support of the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment has culminated in a Students' Conference to be held in Washington on April 5 and 6. Delegates will attend from most of the principal colleges throughout the country to discuss the question...
...control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their ivory tower...