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Practically all of the world's great composers had, at one time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely...
...horrible, sacrilegious iniquities" (TIME, Feb. 7), and promising to hold a service in his Cathedral of St. John the Divine on March 16, when Christian groups throughout the world will offer up, without distinction of creed, a joint and fervent prayer that belief in God and his worship may flourish in the Russian people...
...will have a real job on its hands to carry away the scalps. And it might also be well to notice that the Yale hockey team may have been checked for a while at the start of a game, but has never failed to finish with a real scoring flourish, a thing which Harvard hasn't done. The secret of Yale's success seems to be in possessing a wealth of high-grade man-power and its ability to apply this power when and where it will do the most good. Harvard has shown potentialities whereas Yale has produced...
...Harvard effort to balance the budget by discharging a few scrubwomen rather than pay them two extra cents an hour, as urged by the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, brings the tough-minded realism of the school of business administration into conflict with the more tender-minded humanities, which still flourish, one may hope, in the older departments of the university. It is a tragic collision, in which the humanities have been knocked out. --Springfield Republican...
...Independent India and authorized this Government to: 1) Proclaim "civil disobedience" to the British Raj; 2) Order nonpayment of taxes; 3) Command the desertion of the 200,000 native troops in the British Indian Army; 4) Exact the resignation of native members of the nine Provincial Legislative Councils, which flourish as puppet congresses under British tutelage; 5) And finally to do any or all of these things at such time as members of the Government may deem best...