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...eighth House will be named "Quincy House," the Corporation voted yesterday. The name commemorates Josiah Quincy, fifteenth President of the University...
...shown more and more at the moment. The comparison, in terms of quality, is an unfair one. Picasso's oft misquoted statement of how unimportant he feels next to the Spanish masters of the past, testifies to this. But a comparison of the newly hailed German expressionism with the fifteenth century group is as significant for the resemblances which unite them as for the genius which separates them...
...Durer, however, the issues become clear without confusing the matter with a French school--German school alternative. Nothing cou'd be more Germanic than these fifteenth century prints. Even if Durer and his contemporaries hadn't the horrors of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Third Reich to motivate them, they found substance for equally dramatic expression in the Apocalypse, the Christ passion, or even in a coat of arms of death...
...contrast to the strolling guitar players who frequented the Capriccio, Bach fugues and fifteenth century canciones provide background music at the Mozart. "I much prefer to listen to Schweitzer play Bach than have someone strumming in here. Besides I don't like the guitar much--except for Segovia. I also try to discourage the exhibitionist tendency so often found in today's coffee houses, and I think it is very well discouraged here...
...large group, the girls appeared excellently drilled. The Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles, Op. 77. The first sopranos maintained a pleasant pitch, the second sporanos did not get lost in the altos, and the results were enjoyable...