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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considering the sociological fact that most Jews are city dwelling people and are primarily business men, he stated that business opportunities are rather scanty and that Jews would have to replace a comparatively small number of Europeans engaged in trading with the natives...
...problem of the lack of positions open to new settlers because the climate does not permit them to work in mines, and the fact that new settlers have to replace English executives already in charge of the mines, again preclude any hope of a large number of refugees finding work in the mines...
...college system, made possible by the gift of Edward S. Harkness, also came in for a share of praise. "The colleges have passed from the stage of mere residential units and . . . are adding intellectual and aesthetic values to the social advantages they offer," he said. "The increasing number of distinguished visitors who are brought into close touch with Yale students and teachers provide educational assets beyond estimate...
...Goosens's unhackneyed programme comprises three works new to these concerts and a rarely played Tschaikovsky symphony. The first number, Handel's Overture to the "Occasional Oratorio" (the "Occasion" having been to celebrate the second Stuart rising against the House of Hanover in 1745), is a powerful and exhilarating piece which suffers in performance only from the cruelly high and long trumpet parts typical of the early 18th century. There are three movements: a grave introduction and quasi-fugal allegro, a fine slow movement with oboe solo, and a rousing finale...
Then follow a number of movements from Schumann's "Carnaval," a set of short piano pieces here given in a workmanlike, never unduly colorful orchestration made by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Liadov, and Nicolas Chereprin for the Russian Ballet. The most pleasant piece, "Reconnaissance," is omitted; but the rest is good to hear nevertheless. The final march in three-quarter time may puzzle some people...