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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greene refused permission to use the New Lecture Hall if Browder spoke, but according to a letter to the Society any other speaker would be accepted as long as Browder, who is now under indictment for using passports under an assumed name, was not the subject of discussion...
...with farming; as men of the soil their recreation has been limited to the simple, individualized exercise of track and field. The stoic, hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train for running only at night. The long northern winters cause would-be runners to take up long-distance skiing for conditioning, a type of training which has produced many a tireless distance runner...
...their headmasters accept the new plan of provisional college admittance at the end of the Junior year, a lot of school boys will not have all the efforts of their senior year sucked towards the whirlpool of College Boards. Dean Gummere has long considered changes in Harvard's requirements. Too little opportunity has been granted the applicant to prepare for college, not merely for exams, and the introduction of the new Plan C would allow him to concentrate profitably on more advanced subjects and fields new to him as sociology and economics...
...certainly extremely treacherous and touchy. The hornets or trumpeter is dependent on subtonic adjustments of his breath and lip muscles rather than on the finger and arm motions, which most other musicians employ. The difficulty of tone production is especially important when the player must enter after a long period of rest. In music of the pre-Romantic period--for example, Beethoven's First Symphony in the next Friday and Saturday symphony concerts--the player must continually pick out notes without preparation after his instrument has become cold and his lips have stiffened...
...brass and the fact that the player is usually alone on his part, and one can see that a small slip of the lip becomes terrifically embarrassing. An occurrence at a Boston Symphony Orchestra concert recently has a very interesting bearing on this subject. Just before a long passage for muted strings a very important member of the first violin section lost his mute. He searched for it frantically, finally was forced to play the whole passage unmated; but the total effect was not too shocking...