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First in the limelight tonight is the concert to be given by the combined Yale and Harvard Glee Clubs in Sprague Hall and which will be attended by a large crowd of undergraduates and their guests. Following this the crowd will flock to formal dances which are being held in five of the academic and Sheffield fraternities around the campus. Most of the fraternities have engaged well known orchestras and entertainers for the evening and dancing will last until 2:00 o'clock in the morning and in the case of St. Anthony till 5:00 o'clock...
...futile attitude of antiquarianism or ancestor-worship that Harvard staked its claim to the educational limelight. The year brought challenges, many of which have been successfully met and conquered. Taking up the gage of increasing public indifference to education, the college has spread its tentacles throughout the country, justifying by national scholarships its position as a national institution. In the top brackets of learning, roving professorships promise well to bridge the gaps that modern specialization has brought in wide fields of scholastic endeavor. The symposia of scholars, gathered in September to disseminate their knowledge over the council board...
...before large audiences whom he described as follows: "Their lack of knowledge on this vital subject is appalling, but, once informed, their enthusiasm for our movement is equally encouraging." In the short space of three months, Mr. Taft has lifted an old but relatively obscure association to front-page limelight so forcibly that for the first time in the history of Connecticut all political parties have strong specific planks in their platforms on the Merit System. Membership in the organization has quadrupled, and the organization is being adequately financed by private contributions...
Young Eugene Ormandy walked briskly into the Philadelphia limelight last week, hopped onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell...
...knew all about this case before it caught the limelight. ... I know Mary Astor well. My husband met her just about this time a year ago. I was in Honolulu and he was working in Hollywood. They had a flirtation. ... I cannot see any terrible harm in that. Is it unusual for a husband to flirt with an actress? We have been married 20 years. We are adults, leading our own lives in adult fashion...