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...Bizet Prejude Minuet Adagietto Carillon Songs by James R. Houghton (Baritone) a. "Wanderlied" Schumann b. The House by the Side of the Road Gulesian "Tsar Saltan," Suite Rimsky-Korsakov "The Moldau," Symphonic Poem Smetana Spauish Rhapsody Ravel Ballet of the Hours, "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni "Pomp and Circumstance" Elgar
...Frenchmen, confirmed bachelors of 63 and 65, spent three days, last week, as the house guests of a respected and venerated British man, 62, and wife, 60. Because these four persons are great personages, their conjunction occurred amid the richest and most solemn pomp which Imperial Britain has evoked since the World War. Host and hostess: Their Britannic Majesties. Guests: President Gaston Doumergue of the French Republic and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand...
...Roman for a New England college but experience has shown that the saviour of youthful virility lies in the fact that eventually the "porters" will dwindle into a lone and not over magnificent janitor; that the "maids and bellboys", if such there be, will fade into legend: that the pomp of circumstance will prove disappointingly evanescent...
When the Statler opened with the flourishing of commercial trumpets and hymns from the Park Square realtors, there was prevalent a feeling that at last Boston had been recognized and that it no longer need bow its head in shame at the mention of hostelries. Now its pomp has increased, for it may flaunt a Ritz-Carlton in the fact of those who doubt its metropolitan savoir-faire...
...prestige as the oldest of American universities, Harvard has always been recognized as the one large institution of higher education where all individual social units minimize their own importance and influence in the interests of a larger and finer whole. One may say without any spirit of pomp or pride that membership in Harvard University is an end in itself and all the component parts of the community yield to its superiority. It has become almost a can't phrase to refer to Harvard as the exception which proves the rule: the rule being that fraternal organizations are essential...