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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Trials for the Dramatic Club orchestra will be held today between 2 and 5 o'clock. Candidates are to report at this time with an instrument to J. M. Parmelee '19, in Claverly 4. The orchestra selected will play entre act music for the performances of the Dramatic Club's spring production, on April 3, 4, and 5. This offers a good opportunity to play in a large theatre orchestra, and at least one man retained will be taken into the club. Any member of the University is eligible...
...today's communication column appears a detailed and lively outburst against the vacillating and Prussian policy of the CRIMSON. Some of our more gullible readers may readily infer from this article that the CRIMSON is an instrument of the Nation's great munition concerns who are supposed to desire the most terrible of wars. It may be the case that one or two of the writer's accusations can be regarded seriously. He complains that we have declared war already by taking the Harvard Union for American Neutrality to task. War has not been declared against Germany, but against...
...Professor Edward S. King, passed away this afternoon, February 22, after an illness of two weeks of pleuro-pneumonia. Although only 21 years old, he displayed an extraordinary brilliancy and versatility of mind. He took part in the work of the Harvard Observatory and showed that the ancient instrument, the abacus, could be used to advantage in calculations there. One of his latest enterprises was the study of color in the department of fine arts, a work so highly appreciated that he received an appropriation from the American Academy, the youngest recipient of such an honor. It is difficult...
First of all, detail is merely a means to an end, and not an end in itself. It is the instrument which, properly adjusted, enables us to see and realize our dreams; but if the focus is destroyed or if the glass becomes indistinct through improper manipulation, the image fades, and only a confused blur is distinguishable. Use the instrument properly and it will aid you invaluably, abuse it, and it will blind you hopelessly...
...Illustrated radiates timeliness in its current number more than ever before, and forcibly substantiates the fact that it is the live and fast instrument for presenting pictorially the news of the minute at the University. Even the cover, showing a winter scene in the Yard with the Widener Memorial Library for the background, might have been photographed only yesterday afternoon...