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...peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people and the soil whence they came. He would put them in his music and that music would be unfixed by petty patterns. So the idea grew and out of it came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous...
...dignity of a yearling; the indiscriminate dubbing of plebes as Mr. Ducrot, from a scandal whispered in Keetel's French Grammar; the two months' practical camp training during July and August, accompanied by a cry of "Yea, furlough!", with results curiously like those of the Cambridge "Rein-har", though doubtless of different origin...
...Walter Fenno Dearborn, director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic: Professor Ralph Barton Perry of the Philosophy Department: Professor Henry Bradford Washburn '91, professor of Church History; Assistant Professor Joshua Whatmough: Assistant Professor James Phinney Baxter III: Assistant Professor Arthur Harrison Cole: Assistant Professor William Yandell Elliott: Professor Clarence Henry Har- ing '07; Professor Warren Milton Persons; and Professor Arthur Meler Schlesinger...
...har-r-rum sear...
...Ottawa-that now great and flourishing metropolis the site of which Queen Victoria chose as the Capital of Canada by a most quaint expedient (1858). Her Majesty closed her eyes, gestured with her right hand and brought her extended right forefinger down on a map of Canada. Then, opening har eyes, she remarked: "It is our will that here shall be the Capital of our Dominion of Canada...