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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herman Devries, Chicago Evening American: "The choir is the greatest of its kind in America, perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...HERMAN MELVILLE-Lewis Mumford-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melville the Great | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melville the Great | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Frederick Herman Gade '31 of New York City was elected president of the University Instrumental Clubs at a meeting held last night. Francis Stacy Holmes '31 of West Roxbury will be the vice-president of the 1930 executive staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GADE NAMED PRESIDENT OF INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS | 3/5/1929 | See Source »

There was an alumni reunion, and kudos. Presiding over the reunion was Alumnus Rex Beach. Kudo receivers were: Actor Fred Stone (Doctor of Humanities) ; Operasinger Marie Sundelius (Doctor of Music); Inventor Henry Herman Westinghouse (Doctor of Science); E. W. Rollins (descendant of Founder Rollins, Doctor of Laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bookish Rollins | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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