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...ordinary, prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning world outside...
Wounded during the first year of the war, he came to this country, where he has behaved in an exemplary manner ever-since. Even before we entered the war he was responsible for no propaganda of any sort. His case bears no resemblance to that of Dr. Muck and others who assumed an attitude unfriendly to the United States. Most of his concerts have been for the benefit of families of musicians of all nationalities impoverished...
...show announcement last week is absolutely false. Used in the literal sense the expression is quite proper, and very appropriate as used. The unfavorable meaning attached to it is only a development of modern times. I suggest that the "student of Arabic" abandon such profitless muck-raking and keep to literal meanings. May I suggest that the "Occ." which he writes after his name might well mean "Of coarse caliber?" FORD HIBBARD...
...discriminating lover of music, and a wise user of wealth, ceases to be the chief supporter of the great orchestra he founded 37 years ago, but because his retirement comes at a time when he has been associated with the defence of the orchestra's conductor, Karl Muck, who has been arrested and interned as a dangerous alien enemy...
Tonight at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its seventh concert of the college year at the University. Owing to the absence of Dr. Muck, who was arrested last week as an enemy alien, his understudy, Dr. Schmidt, will conduct. Miss Alice Allen, pianist, who is the soloist of the evening, is making her first appearance in Cambridge, although she recently played with the orchestra at their regular performance in Boston. She will render Chopin's second Concerto in F minor, which offers great possibilities for a display of rhythmic talent and technique...