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...deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre and a half, its roof supported by three interior pillars and a colonnade. The Shed's acoustics are so excellent that an orchestral pianissimo can be heard by an overflow audience outside the colonnade. Last week...
...famous for her athletes than for her salons. But Tavasts and Karelians (all Finns are one or the other) point with greater pride to Finland's world's champion literacy record, boast that, except for 0.9% every last Finn today can read and write, exhibit Modernist Architect Eliel Saarinen as world evidence of Finnish culture. If you were to ask on the streets of a U. S. city who was the outstanding modern Finn, chances are the reply would be: Paavo Nurmi. But if you asked the same question on the streets of Helsingfors the answer would almost...
...Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate over to the Festival committee, which raised $16,000 in pledges for an orchestra pavilion to be designed by famed Finnish-born Architect Eliel Saarinen...
Material is unusually plentiful this year. Only three men have graduated out of the whole first and second boats, Lon Eliel and Captain Ray Clark, who rowed five and seven on the Varsity, and Jim Gardner, captain and number four on the Jayvees. There are also last year's undefeated Freshmen to pick from and the entire combination boat which beat Yale by two lengths last year without raising the beat above...
...crews line up now Peter T. Brooks '38 has taken Clark's position at seven on the Varsity and John H. Gardiner '38 is replacing Eliel at five. Whether this lineup will remain next spring is still a mystery although Bolles may have some pretty definite ideas by this time. The Jayvees and former Freshman boats have been holding each other pretty evenly in informal brushes on the river but the lineups have been rather disrupted by afternoon laboratories and classes...