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...Fete Charette" is to be given in Hemenway Gymnasium on Thursday, February 22, by the members of the University School of Architecture and the Department of Architecture and the Massachusetts Institute, of Technology. A definite historical period has been set, that of Mediaeval Constantinople, within which the setting of the ball, decorations and costumes, will be confined. The variety of costumes may, however, range throughout the entire body of characters who might conceivably have sojourned in Constantinople between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Tickets may be procured either at Robinson Hall in Cambridge...
...means of a small push-cart--a charrette. . . so that when a student is particularly rushed with his work he is said to be working "en charrette". In America this means expending a great effort. In Paris once a year the Ecole gives a large entertainment called the "Fete d'Ecole" the idea of which the University School has enlarged upon with its "Fete Charrette...
...Romeo alone: Grand Fete at the Capalets", from the Dramatic Symphony, "Romeo and Juliet". Berlios
...Gladiators, Fucik 2. Overture to "William Tell," Rossini 3. Madrigal, Caccini 4. Fantasia, "Fause," Gounod 5. First Hungarian Rhapsody, in F major, Liszt 6. Flute solo, Mr. Arthur Brooke (a) Romance sans Paroles, Guilmant. (b) Polonaise, Possard. 7. Prelude, Rachmaninoff 8. Scenes Pittoresques, Massenet (a) Aair de Ballet. (b) Fete Boheme. 9. Overture Solennelle, "1812," Tschaikowsky 10. Ave Maria, from "Othello," Verdi 11. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 12. Slavonic Dance, No. 1, Dvorak
...This morning three of our Section and a number of 'brancardiers,' with whom we messed around at the front, (about 14 in all) were decorated with the Croix de Guerre. As a result today has been a fete day, with feasting, songs, wines, and speeches. Now we recuperate. There is talk of work again, and lots of it, in about ten days. There are American soldiers within 20 kilometres;--a young lieutenant visited us yesterday and dined with us today. It seems hard to realize that all about us here are Americans, preparing to go down and face the thunder...