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...Prudent critics have arraigned the artists and musicians of this latter day, not without some show of justice, for being jongleur who, tongue in cheek, execute their insolent pastiches, sing their thin songs with nothing in their heads but a bitter and windy laughter. These critics have listened to the compositions of Composers Ravel and Satie, whose music laughs at music, have seen the works of Sculptor Nadelman, whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy...
...last six years Mr. Fisher's service has been marked by whole hearted cooperation in every way with the policies of the Committee. He has never been self-seeking in the least degree; but has warmly supported every suggestion looking to the effective training of his teams and the prudent economical administration of the football budget. Judged by results alone his success as a coach cannot be questioned if our victories in Yale games are to be the measure of that success; for in those six years his teams have won four such victories. His personal relations with the Committee...
Radio listeners, being human, want the best of everything. But they don't always get it. The nightly ether-music is too often indirect advertising. Prudent musicians object to the broadcasting of their programs; people won't buy seats in stuffy concert halls if they can stay at home and listen to the same thing. For these and allied reasons, the Chicago Civic Opera will not broadcast its performances this Winter...
...support and strengthen the beginnings which have been made in the direction of a national budget. We must have, in addition, an economy which consists not merely in securing a dollar's worth for every dollar spent, but that far less popular form of economy which imitates the prudent householder in doing without the things one wishes but cannot at the time afford. Economy, however, begins at the wrong end when it attacks the pay of government employes, who are justly entitled to pay equal to that they would receive from private employers for similar work...
...placid, prudent, elderly English gentleman...