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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet of barges down the Thames when he heard, for almost the last time, the strains of his own "Blue Danube" ringing in his ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...College of Surgeons of England, honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association, who last week retold: The heart showed a fatty degeneration and a hardening, and it was, wonderfully, the heart of that very Pharaoh Menephthah of whom the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened. . . . (Exodus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard-Hearted Pharaoh | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Probably there will be no exodus from Princeton as a result of an interview with Floyd L. Carlisle, a New York banker, in The Daily Princetonian. He tells his college audience that, except possibly for courses in debating, four years on the campus is a four-year handicap for men intending to enter business; that college training is useful only for law, engineering and science. The start which one entering business at 18 has over one entering at 22, even with his college degree, is usually too great to be overtaken, in his opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Are College Years Wasted | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...football team will be assured of good undergraduate support in the game with Michigan, as indications point to a considerable exodus to Ann Arbor over the weekend of November 9. The H.A.A. stated yesterday that over 500 members of the University had applied for seats by the time applications closed on Wednesday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MICHIGAN GAME WILL HAVE MANY HARVARD ROOTERS | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

Pres. Angell said the week-end exodus from New Haven had become a serious matter, adding that "this extension work for Yale" should be curtailed. He said week-ends should be spent at New Haven making social contacts, an essential part of the college career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

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