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...vividness of expression, his perfect technique and easy control of tone conveys, to the listener impressions of restraint and perfect command of his art. With a voice smooth though not weak, powerful though never forced, he gave a program which evinced catholicity of taste and true musicianship. Commencing with eighteenth century music of Gluck and Handel, he sang three songs of Griffes, Huhn's "Invictus". (the words are Henley's) and various French and Spanish songs. For encores he gave "Ships"--Masefield set to music highly descriptive--, "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" and more songs of his native...
...ancestors." The expressive phrase in the mouth of the historian indicates he jauntiness which a Professor of History must show to prove that he has no old-fashioned ideas about "the dignity of history." Beautiful old Professor Torrey of the Cambridge of fifty years ago, who looked like an eighteenth century French Marquis, never dreamed of such felicities of speech. "We are all getting a little tired of these panegyrics," continues Professor Hart, "and this indiscriminate praise of everybody born before the year 1800. As to the men in the Revolution, there has grown up hero worship and almost...
...played under the auspices of the Harvard Golf Association yesterday at the Braeburn Country Club, J. W. Sweetser and R. T. Jonse '23 defeated F. D. Ouimet and Jesse Guilford one up by taking the last hole. The score was even at the end of the seventeenth. On the eighteenth hole Jones drove and then put a long iron shot on the edge of the green. A 54-foot putt brought him to within nine inches of the hole and he was out for a four. Sweetser, Guilford, and Ouimet all turned in fives...
...most important, and the most difficult"; and those who have read his Breakfast Table chats will agree with him. Yet in present times the breakfast table has been supplanted by the quick lunch system with its ready-to-serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order to be a "wit" than a superficial line of questionable repartee or the ability to first...
Arguing on the question: "Resolved, that the Volstead Act should be modified in accordance with the greatest liberality consistent with the Eighteenth Amendment", the Freshman debating team won the triangular debate yesterday by defeating Yale 1925 at Sanders Theatre and Princeton 1925 at Princeton. The judges' decision of the Cambridge debate, given by Mr. R. M. Washburn '90, Professor C. H. Gray of Tufts College, and Mr. E. J. Frost, was 2 to 1 in favor of the negative...