Word: programs
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...topic for the morning session will be "Pressing Problems of the Modern High Schol." The program follows: "The Secondary School Curriculum," Dr. Audrey A. Douglass, Lecturer on Secondary Education in the University; "Organizing the School for Guidance." Dr. John M. Brewer, A.M. '15, Associate Professor of Education in the University; "Problems in Vocational Education," Professor Frederick G. Nichols, Associate Professor of Education in the University; "College Entrance Requirements," Dr. Jesse B. Davis, Professor of Secondary Education, Boston University...
Saturday afternoon in Jordan Hall, Miss Guiomar Novaes, pianiste. Her program includes Beethoven's Sonata, Opus 8la. Chopin's B-flat minor Sonata and pieces by Rameau, Albeniz and Debussy...
...Life insurance is the most modern method by which the uncertain is made certain," quoted Mr. Woodhouse from President (then Governor) Coolidge's address in 1921 to the Life Insurance Sales Congress. "I believe that the most wonderful thing of this insurance program," continued Mr. Woodhouse, "is that every man--no matter what his condition may be can contribute equally in the building of this endowment to Harvard. This insurance is a policy on each man's life, and I consider it a marvelous way of keeping up the class spirit and of holding the class together...
Balieff has brought his Chauve-Souris to Boston again, "entirely new", according to the program, but containing in the actual performance three of the acts which appeared in Boston last year. Two of these--"Katinka", and "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"--were thrown in as pseudo-encores; the third, "Siciliana", was a puppet show burlesque of Italian grand opera, with more scenery and less archness than formerly. Balieff dominated everything except the audience, although he put up a stiff fight for the possession of this domain also. He looked as though he were very much the worse for America...
...program of thirteen numbers and two reminiscences proved much of the same sort as last year's. There was melodrama in "Stenka Razin", high tragedy in "The King Orders the Drums to be Beaten", sentiment in "A Winter Evening", sentimentality in "The Arrival at Bethlehem", sugar-sweet delicacy in many others, and varying degrees of piquancy, satire, burlesque, and buffoonery in the rest. Their were pleasures for all tastes. Color, line, and grace abounded; the characters, whenever there were any, stood out distinctly in the talents of the actors, but best of all were the voices. Whether in verse...