Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With regard to the improvement already shown from Prohibition: the following statistics are of interest: from the passage of the law until 1921, deaths from liquor declined definitely: then, there was a slow increase until the winter of 1926-1927; but now the deaths caused either directly or indirectly from excessive (or even moderate) consumption of alcohol have been checked by the law. The number has never been so high as in pre-prohibition days, and never will as long as the present law is in existence...
...appears the comment of a Yale student columnist on the attitude of undergraduates towards music in New Haven. His facts and the conclusions he draws from them are surely significant and could probably be applied to Harvard as well as Yale. An unprejudiced observer could hardly help noticing the interest in music at Harvard as shown by the increasing number of non jazz records bought around the Square, the tremendous overapplication for tickets to the Boston Symphony concerts in Sanders theatre, as well as the number of men taking courses in the music department...
...most popular courses offered undergraduates by the Music Department are Music 3 and 4. Both of these courses are so planned as to be of interest to men with either a slight knowledge of music or none at all, but unfortunately they are both restricted in numbers. This restriction, especially since men below a certain academic standing, are the ones discriminated against, is unfortunate in view of the increasing number of men interested in the music. Mechanically an increase in numbers could readily be taken care of by having an extra assistant in each course, and any danger of their...
...appearing to be an appreciator of good music. There is no one urging the majority to buy records, to hear music, by telling them what "finer men" they may become if they listen to Beethoven's "Seventh" every evening. Certainly a judicial, unprejudiced individual would say that the interest is prefectly sincere and indicative of pronounced broadening...
...Vagabond an occasion to become a little more familiar with this outstanding figure in French literature. Although Rabelais' work is of such permanent significance as to be a standard, the present activity of book censors and other public officials makes Professor Morize's subject very timely and of special interest even to those to whom French literature itself makes no appeal...