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...leave sopranos out of their chorales in order that their genius might be reserved for masculine choirs in a men's college. The mixed group of 35 which has sung for Memorial Church services for three years has been able to bring with it a selection of religious music hitherto unheard in the Yard...
Also stressed by the committee was the fact that even at present there is no uniform closing times for the Houses. Despite the closing hour of 7 o'clock set by the Parietal Regulations a wide area of discretion has hitherto been left to the individual House Master, Permission has often been extended to later nights when women were allowed in the dining halls, holidays, and other special occasions...
...taking over the bank, in which the Government had hitherto held only a part interest, Peron obtained for the state "its sovereign right to issue money," and what was more immediately important, the right to borrow enough money to finance his huge military program. Argentina's military government has not come near balancing its budget since it seized power nearly three years ago. In that time the budget doubled, with military expenditures accounting for nearly half of the total. Peron's schedule for air-base construction alone-most of it along the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders-will cost...
...failure of modern novelists since, and including, James Joyce is one of presumption and exorbitance. They are not content with the artificial figures which hitherto passed so gracefully as men and women. They try to represent the whole human mind and soul and yet omit its determining character-that of being God's creature with a defined purpose...
...Judas, it was whispered, couldn't find a roomer at any price; and St. John, who was the handsomest of the Apostles, finally eloped to the U.S. with a rich American widow). The second lesson in perspective came through World War I, in which Private Schoenberner, who had hitherto been crazy about horses, was given the job of grooming them. "It is amazing how different a horse looks if seen from above, from the saddle, or from below, when you are standing ... up to the ankles in manure, half asphyxiated by the stench...