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...critics in east and west, north and south, Dayton must be satisfied with the second best in this sphere. For all have agreed that "in all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to the St. Olaf Lutheran Choir of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn." For the evidence read the ravings of otherwise hardboiled critics in the enclosed folder...
...this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "In all America there exists no musical organization devoted to choral song quite comparable to St. Olaf." New York World: "Some two score youths and maidens from Northfield, Minn., put on immortality for approxi- mately one hour and thirty minutes last night at the Metropolitan Opera House, for the most exacting listener surely must admit that the choir of St. Olaf College, during the moments they are intoning their music, can only have been recruited from the angelic...
That should be sufficient evidence. Not that Northfield does not wish to be generous, but in the face of such evidence I am confident that Dayton will accept the correction...
...western trip will include the University of Chicago; Marquette University, at Milwaukee; Carleton University, at Northfield, Minnesota; and Grennell College, at Grennell, Iowa. A fifth college, with which negotiations are at present being conducted, will also be included in this tour...
...dined at the house of the Secretary of State & Mrs. Frank Billings Kellogg, of St. Paul. Other Minnesotans present, with their ladies, were Sumner Thomas McKnight (banker, realtor, expert on criminal pardons & paroles), John Sargent Pillsbury (flour-"Eventually. Why Not Now?"), President Donald John Cowling of Carleton College at Northfield. Also present was Dr. William Holland Wilmer, ophthalmologist...