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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warlocks and the black arts, hexes and powwows have been neglected by a race of modern rustics who, when their crops are bad or the pigs perish, appeal to the U. S. government. City people, who supposed that the last U. S. beldame had long since ridden up the wind and that the rattle of wild laughter in the autumn air had never been heard since Salem, were surprised to learn of the York witches. They regarded the episode as a weird survival of savage superstition into an era of radios, mechanical birds and spiritualism, of which also there...
Pacific 231 won Honegger fame from Boston to California. It stimulates the vogue for putting all manner of mechanical sounds into music. Alone, and on first hearing, however, it failed to inspire any widespread confidence. People were becoming increasingly wary of modern composers. Repeated hearings of the Pacific were necessary to convince that it was more than freakish stuff. But for five years now it has endured, and since, substantiating it as ringing, vital music, there have been King David, Antigone, Judith, now Rugby...
...lecture will be the third of a series of 15 which is being presented by the Faculty of the Medical School for the purpose of acquainting the general public with the major facts of modern medicine. The first talk of the series was given by Bishop William Lawrence on veneral disease, and Professor C. E. Turner delivered the second on the subject of the school health program...
...than 2,000 in 1903 to 9,286 in 1928, (excluding membership in the Technology Branch), shows an interesting rise in the last five years, almost doubling in number. Several factors contribute to this growth, one of the chief ones being the remodeling of the old store into the modern place of business in which the Society is now housed. The inclusion of graduate members was also begun during this period. These number 1,366 in the 1928 report...
...addition to his connections with various colleges, Professor Tatlock has written and edited several works on English authors. Prominent among these are "The Development and Chronology of Chaucer's Works" written in 1907, "A Modern Reader's Chaucer" written in 1912 in conjunction with Percy MacKage, and "Representative English Plays" which he edited with P. G. Martin...