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...Yale University Glee Club won the Intercollegiate Glee Club contest held Saturday night in Carnegle Hall, New York city. Syracuse and Columbia divided second honors and Harvard failed to place. Thirteen colleges and universities were represented by their glee clubs including Grinnell College of Grinnell, la. The judges were Madam Louise Homer, Mr. Gilbert Gabriel, and Dr. Walter Damrosch, chairman. The contest was won on a point basis...
...judges of the contest this year will be Madam Louise Homer, Mr, Gilbert Gabriel, music critic of the New York Sun and the New York Globe, and Dr. Walter Ramrosch, chairman. According to the rules of the contest, the songs are judged on a scale of 100, 30 points being the highest possible score for the light song, 50 for the prize song, and 20 for the college song. There being three judges, the total scale...
...Madam" is again demonstrated the truth of the theory that one need have no great system of propaganda in mind before setting out to write a novel, theory which has seemingly fallen into disrepute among the majority of the better present-day writers of this country. "Purpose, purpose. purpose" is engraved in large type across the pages of almost all the novels of note which have appeared since the beginning of the war. To be sure there have been may thousands of books published abroad as well as in this country which had not purpose, but most of them, unfortunately...
...return to "Madam" as may have been surmised for the above, it is a novel which propose to reform neigh the world as a whole nor any particular par of it. The setting of the story is in London, the time the years following immediately after the war. For characters it has many who stand out shapely as individuals, chief among them being Mott Lane, a boy from the English country-side who turns radical and, in theory at least. Revolt against state of society the brought about the war. But the author concerns herself little with his radical tendencies...
...Madam" is cheerful reading. Wellspring and well-written it tell it pleas ant tale pleasantly...