Word: performance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objection to the Harvard Business and Boston Public Library merger. The advantages of the merger to Harvard are less tangible. The University's business library will be enriched to some extent. Beyond that there is almost nothing beside what general satisfaction can be gained from watching the University perform a useful public service. One is inclined to agree with the Transcript that "the whole arrangement is plainly one under which the city of Boston will receive much more than it gives...
...this country we have a bad misconception about divorce suits. We assume that because the law is invoked every detail then becomes public property. This is wrong. . . . We invoke the law when we perform a marriage, but we do not give the public the right to know what the bridegroom said when he proposed, or all the details of what took place after the wedding...
...funeral budget bill, providing for a total expenditure of 2,980,000 yen ($1,490,000) on the state funeral which will be held late in February. Among other expenses will be the permanent support of the oxen used to draw the Imperial Hearse, since these animals never thereafter perform labor of any kind...
...taking place over the weekend. This afternoon in Jordan Hall at 3 o'clock, Mischa Levitzki, a noted though young pianist, will give a recital of Beethoven, Schumann, Chop n and others. Tomorrow at 3.30 in Symphony Hall, Pablo Casals, the greatest living master of the violoncello, will perform a Sonata of Bach in G. major; a Sonata in D major by Locatelli, our eighteenth century composer; Beethoven's great 'cello Sonata in A major and an Adagio and Allegro by Schumann...
...Perry '28 with a ventriloquist act. C. E. Henderson '28 on the piano and the goofus, and A. W. Lend '29 on the violin, will be the individuals to perform tonight. A number by a string quartette and a song by a double quartette will complete the program...