Word: minority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of great importance which it is expected will come to the attention of the Committee this evening is the proposed trip of the squash team to the Intercollegiate Tournament at Buffalo on February 21, 22, and 23. Permission for this trip was originally refused on the ground that minor sport teams should not be allowed to make such extended trips. Since that time, however, news of the fact that Yale's squash team has been given permission to compete in the tournament has reached the University. This, coupled with the fact that there is a strong feeling among undergraduates...
...sides-one glowering, the other lifted in perpetual satire, as if stretched in infancy by an enormous monocle; Lord Hovenden who, for all his 21 years, pronounced the "th" in "thingumabob" as a "v," but had a 'wonderful physique and a motor car; Mr. Calamy, 'by inclination a minor prophet, by fate an amorist, whose talent for meditation incessantly scuffled with his genius for seduction; Falx, Guild Socialist, who was amazed and deeply shocked at the characters, at the conversations of these people...
They played Haydn's Quartet in D minor, Brahms' Quartet in C minor; then, after a rest, they smiled among themselves, stroked the glossy wood of their instruments, began to play a strange composition. It was Ernest Schelling's Divertimento, for string quartet with piano obbligato. (Schelling himself was at the pianoforte, 'for this was the first time that his composition (dedicated to the Flonzaleys) had ever been played. There were critics who instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events...
...they allowed Memorial Hall to be used as a gymnasium. But we earnestly hope that they will carefully consider whether this is the best and noblest use that can be made of the Hall. Although being a dining hall, it is hardly suited for a gymnasium, still with minor or even essential changes, it might be made to serve many other purposes. Then, too, although Cambridge boys and girls undoubtedly deserve Harvard's generosity, there are all sorts and conditions of men all over the world who might advantageously use the hall...
...program: Prelude and Fugue in C minor Bach Mr. Leonard. Invocation "O God, have mercy," from "St. Paul" Mendelssohn "Behold, I tell you a mystery," from "The Messiah" Handel Mr. Houghton Tenth Concerto Handel Mr. Leonard. Scripture Reading "Lord, Thou art my refuge" Dvovak "God is my Shepherd" Dvovak "I will sing my new songs of gladness" Dvovak Mr. Houghton. Angelus du Soir Bonnet Finale from Second Symphony Wider Mr. Leonard...