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...reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being," etc.; assuming of course that all musicians are either ab or sub-normal, and that no normal person can be a musician at heart, whether or not, a professional. he considers mediocrity of taste to be an excuse for itself, and that nothing further is necessarily to be desired. But good taste is the result of cultivation. Few persons are born with a natural appreciation of Wagner or Debussy, any more than for Velasquez...
...reason for believing that what brings pleasure to the Musician is any higher or nobler than that which brings pleasure to the normal human being. If a person is able to get satisfaction out of something that does not bring satisfaction to the average man, and is not able to enjoy something that this average man enjoy, he is in a sense, abnormal. If this is nobility I prefer to be happy in my ignobility...
...Glee Club sees fit to leave behind it a "trail of disappointed audiences," who came expecting to spend an enjoyable evening and were bored in the extreme, I fail to see just why it has attained a higher or nobler end than one which gives to the audiences the enjoyment for which they have paid. J. BARRETT...
...great victories for human freedom must not have been won in vain. They must serve as the instruments and the inspiration for a greater and nobler freedom for all mankind. Autocratic, political and corporate industrial influences in our country have sought, and are seeking, to infringe upon and limit the fundamental rights of the wage-earners guaranteed by the constitution of the United States. Powerful forces are seeking more and more aggressively to deny to wage-earners their right to cease work. Labor denounces these efforts as vicious and destructive of the most precious liberties of our people...
...asset. Too often a university impresses the world as being so absorbed in the past that it is unable to keep abreast of the present. It would indeed be a sorry sight to see an age bearing along the university instead of the university leading the age on to nobler ends. Such a sight Princeton will never permit if her president's program is adopted. The modification of admission requirements will open her doors to many more students, while the regional scholarships will interest men from all parts of the United States in the advantages of her colleges...