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...Great Pyramid, is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At its Friday afternoon concerts in venerable Symphony Hall, bald, spade-bearded oldsters and their classically corseted wives sit complacently, laved in the patrician strains of Beethoven and Brahms. So have they sat every week since the late Major Henry Lee Higginson, in 1881, materialized the expensive idea that Boston ought to have a good symphony orchestra. That idea cost Major Higginson a million dollars...
...Higginson's Band. The fame of Henry Lee Higginson's orchestra has not been limited to Boston. Long before the Philadelphia Orchestra was heard of, connoisseurs rated the Boston Symphony the finest organization of its kind in the U.S., some said in the world. Although it has been rivaled in recent years by at least two other U.S. orchestras,* it has held its place fairly steadily for more than half a century. Only once in its history did it fall behind the front rank, and that was when its greatest conductor, razor-faced, German-born Karl Muck...
...Allen, noted war correspondent, will lecture in Emerson D tonight at 8 o'clock on latest developments in Spain, under the auspices of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology, chairman of the group, will preside at the meeting...
...Student Union Committee, headed by Walter B. Cannon, Higginson Professor of Physiology, is launching the campaign which is being extended to most of the Houses and many of the graduate school halls. The treasurer of the Committee is H. Van Buren Cleveland...
...Sparrow," a comedy presented by Girvan Higginson and written by Maxwell Selser, is a disconcerted tale of a disconcerted woman. The point of the title is that since God watches the fall of the merest sparorw, surely He will keep an eye on the Thomas's, the central family of the play. He does, more or less, but He takes it off frequently enough to let them get into predicaments that would be very desperate, except that no one, particularly no one in the audience, cares very much anyway...