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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story of the play centres in Bury St. Edmonds, a small town near London. A young gentleman from the metropolis mingles with the provincial society of the little town. There are two ladies, mother and daughter, whose ideas of social breeding are synonymous with their name, Fantast, and who are extremely eager to take up the latest arrival in fashion from Paris. Two old gentlemen of the town are continually playing practical jokes which would now be regarded as social errors rather than as marks of a cultivated intellect. The Londoner, a French barber, launches into the society...
...fifty graduates turned to New Haven. They were taken on tours of the various University buildings, and heard talks on Yale problems by President Hadley, Dean Jones, Secretary Stokes and others; the chance for an investigation of the routine and progress of the college was offered them worth the name...
...family, etc., have often greater historical value than formal printed accounts by secondary historians, or autographs of distinguished men. There is sometimes a failure to perceive that an officer's commission in 1750 as a higher value than a printed county history on that period. The Commission, as its name signifies, is interested mainly in getting together material relating to western history, although a vast deal of this material lies in the desks and attics in the "down East" States. The Commission has been very careful to make clear the point that it is not seeking to draw exceptional local...
...music teaching in the Boston public schools is timely in view of the avowed purpose of the board of education to go over this department of its work with a fine toothed comb. It reveals convincingly what most of us, in our grade school days, have suffered in the name of art. A constructive article on the same subject, written by some one who was both a psychologist and a musician, might have considerable, influence at this time. Mr. Hall describes Karg-Elert's organ compositions vividly, accomplishing a kind of task which is at best dfficult. Mr. Appel...
First place was awarded to Harvard Norton 1G.S., of Boston, who will have his name inscribed on the trophy and will have custody of it until the next competition. Second and third places were awarded to Donald Bond Johnston 2G.S., of Richmond, Ind., and Raymond Hill Wilcox 2G.S., of Grand Rapids, Mich...