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...York Herald-Tribune. Cooks attended this course-private cooks from Manhattan, private cooks from out-of-own,*private cooks fresh from Germany & Hungary whose new mis-resses had ruled that they needed further drill. Housewives too attended-housewives of all grades, good ones who wished to excel, doubtful ones who wished to pass muster. They heard lectures in the New York City Town Hall (capacity 1,500). Miss Florence Brobeck supervised the cooks & housewives. She it is who prints each Sunday good advice on recipes, household appliances, marketing information, dietetics & child feeding, decorating & furnishing, restaurant service...
...company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture polish to autographed manuscripts of Mozart's Magic Flute and Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony...
...perhaps a Haydn, a bit of de Falla or maybe Respighi and a portion of Wagner?and a symphonic conductor has made up his program. And just as one chef is famed for his pastry, the next one for his meats, so is it natural for one conductor to excel in one style of music, be it classic, romantic or modern...
...students. If the public school man is normal, he grows sensitive over his social disadvantages. Then study becomes for him what the psychoanalysis call "a defense mechanism", an avenue of escape from his unsatisfactory relations with his fellows. He comforts himself by scorning those activities in which he cannot excel. He retreats to his room, studies with redoubled energy, and seeks satisfaction and justification in grades...
When asked by the reporter concerning the relative scholastic standards in the United States and Germany, he answered: "I think that the Germans excel. Of course, this is contrary to the opinion of most authorities; still, I believe that I am correct. According to the statistics of the state of Prussia for last year, only 41 percent of the students completed the nine-year course while in the Gymnasiums in nine years, while 30 percent were required to double one year, 17 percent to double two years, and 12 percent were forced to double three or more years. The average...