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This latter piece, "The Sea" might well bear for sub-title: "Much Ado about Nothing." Its composer, Mr. Frank Bridge, is supposedly representative of the Englishmen of the middle ground, Williams, Holst, and the rest. He has all the faults of a neutral, chief among them dullness. Brevity is not one of his virtues. As a conductor he is energetic; one would like to see (not hear) him conduct such a piece as "Ein Heldenleben...
General Oglethorpe founded the Colony of Georgia in 1732 by releasing several hundred oppressed Englishmen from London jails and taking them to an asylum in the wilds of America. President Jacobs believed that "the wish of 10,000,000 in the Southland" would be gratified could " their father and founder " be " located," brought to Atlanta, ensconced in a gorgeous mausoleum on Oglethorpe University's campus, " in the bosom of Georgia...
...Oxford debaters will meet the Yale team tonight in Sprague Hall, New Haven, Conn., to argue "The Occupation of the Ruhr", the same question used Monday night when the Englishmen overwhelmed the University debating team in Symphony Hall. A novel feature of the debate is that each team will exchange one man. Of the Oxford team, one will be a member of the affirmative team and two of the negative and Yale will have one negative man from Oxford and two American affirmative speakers...
Although the audience settled the point at the time by a walk-out, public sentiment may have changed ere this or perhaps the method of the debaters themselves may have undergone revision. It is hardly likely that the Englishmen, with a possible political life ahead of them, will have renounced their politic and winning manners; but they may have charged themselves with facts and logic. On the other hand the Harvard debaters may have concluded that charm as well as logic is of aid in moving a human audience...
Both teams will practice in Symphony Hall before Monday evening: the University speakers this afternoon, the Englishmen Monday morning...