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...Friday the Sodality will hold its annual dance at Longwood Towers, varying the classical tone of their concerts by spending the evening dancing to the jazz of Jack Francis and his orchestra...
Under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the Pierian Sodality will give a concert Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in Longwood Towers, Brookline. The program will consist of the following selections: "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major" by Bach; Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony"; "Hungarian Dance No. 5" by Brahms; "Three Rumanian Folk Dances" by Bartok; "Allegrette" from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony; and "Malaguena" by Lecuona...
...Hudson Lowe, the British Governor, was a choleric, literal-minded martinet. The French and their warders were at loggerheads from the start. Said Napoleon of Sir Hudson: "The man is a coward of long experience and a gaoler from taste." Napoleon and his entourage shut themselves up in Longwood, their uncomfortable quarters high up in the hills, while Sir Hudson fumed in Jamestown. Both parties kept up a constant barrage of verbal and written insults, orders, recriminations, complaints. In order to annoy Sir Hudson and make it appear that he was being starved, Napoleon had some of his silver plate...
...finally refused to have anything to do with Sir Hudson, hid himself in the house, the Governor ordered a luckless officer to report daily on his prisoner's presence. For weeks the officer and Napoleon played hide-&-seek. After fruitless days of snooping, the desperate man broke into Longwood one day, caught Napoleon in the bathtub, was pursued down passageways with royal imprecations. When Napoleon, for something to do, had a sunken garden built, the excavations to Sir Hudson's fevered mind, looked like earthworks...
...Dental Museum, Harvard Dental School, Longwood Avenue, Boston, daily, except Sundays and holidays, from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.; Saturdays, from...