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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the concert, the orchestra divided, with the winds performing the Stravinsky and the strings showing their stuff on an arrangement of Bach's Ricecar a 6 from the Musical Offering. The main virtue of this arrangement was that it provided an effective showcase for the shining string tone the orchestra has developed. This was unfortunately offset by a thickness which often obscured the contrapuntal writing in favor of a rich sound, and an occasional slickness and unfaithfulness to style. While avoiding the purists' contention that nothing of Bach's should be performed in an arrangement--after...
John P. Van Schalwyk '63 led the debate against the disclaimer, condemning it as "thought control." His main opponent was James F. Scott '63, who felt the University should not deprive students of the free choice to take the loans if they wanted them...
They play soccer at Penn on a narrow, choppy field out behind the university steam plant, among various factories and under the main railroad artery to Philadelphia. There, in the worst playing condition imaginable, the varsity soccer squad staked its claim to the Ivy League title by defeating Penn, 2 to 0, last Saturday...
...effectively delivered speech to the Inland Daily Press Association, Rockefeller pinpointed six areas of main concern (foreign policy, defense, education, economic growth, labor and civil rights), promised that he would speak "at length on these problems in the times ahead...
...Vetoes. The four delegates of tiny Andorra, whose main industry-smuggling -is frowned upon by France and Spain, had to fight their way through a snowstorm in leaving the Pyrenees, and nearly came to grief on the main street of Vaduz when their car almost collided with a herd of cows. The delegate representing the haL'-square-mile domain of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace was Monaco's commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist...