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...carry the burden: cox, Charles R. Cherington '35; stroke, William D. Locke '36; 7, David L. Marks 1L; 6, Richard C. Wells 1GB; 5, Andrew G. Webster, 2nd. '36; 4, C. Whitney Dall, Jr. '35; 3, George A. Matteson, Jr. '36; 2, Charles F. Tillinghast, Jr. '35; bow, Thomas Marvel...
Hemenway Gymnasium, built more than 50 years ago has become rapidly obsolete in the last few years and freshmen, entering the building for the first time when they take physical exams marvel at its antiquity. Pictures of Harvard strong men adorn the entrance hall and innumerable machines for producing gigantic biceps are scattered throughout the building , all in dreary and regular monotony...
...Metropolitan Opera House. Her last Metropolitan performance coincided last week with the conclusion of the Wagner Cycle (TIME, Feb. 12). The opera was Die Meistersinger and Eva who has always seemed a dull heroine suddenly bloomed forth as a charming young person, very much in love. Critics who marvel at the warm eloquence of Lotte Lehmann's singing, the contralto richness that holds to the high est notes, again complained because they had to wait so long to hear her at the Metropolitan. Chicago had her for a few performances in 1931 and 1932. From Vienna, Salzburg, Paris...
Ambergris has been a puzzle and treasure to the world for centuries. It is mentioned in the Arabian Nights Tales. Medieval Europeans used it in cosmetics, medicines, love potions. When in the 18th Century a whaler found some inside his haul, marvel-lovers still insisted that the whale had simply found and swallowed it. But other whalers discovered it in the intestines of rare sperm whales, usually scrawny specimens, and finally scientists agreed upon its source. No one knows yet, however, whether ambergris floating loose in the sea has been expelled by a live whale or has fallen from...
...Marvel to the players as rehearsals proceeded was that a conductor with such brief experience had memorized each detail of the music so perfectly, that by listening to orchestras, reading over pocket scores in trains, at meals, in bed, he had developed such clear ideas on the meaning of each phrase and nuance. First thing he did was to reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed...