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...barrel-chested, wing-collared young Yale instructor glared sternly at his pupils and in a voice that rang like an anvil began to lecture to his first class. He was William Graham Sumner. "He broke upon us," said a pupil, "like a cold spring in the desert." For 37 years Yale students were stimulated by that cold spring. When Sumner retired in 1909, an equally remarkable teacher took his chair. Last week Sumner's barrel-chested, stern-eyed successor, Professor Albert Galloway Keller, faced his last class...
Chabrier: Trois Valses Romantiques (Robert and Gaby Casadesus on two pianos; Columbia; 4 sides). Pre-Vichy elegance and wit, glitteringly played by a Frenchman and his wife, an ex-pupil...
Coach Al McCoy will send his Yardling quintet in search of its third straight win tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building against a Northeastern team coached by a former pupil of his, "Foxey" Flumere. McCoy coached Flumere during his seven year stay at Northeastern from...
...week tour. For pianistic form and box-office appeal, Rubinstein rates with the best of them-polished Josef Hofmann (56 years at the keyboard); titanic Sergei Rachmaninoff; glittering Vladimir Horowitz; sober Artur Schnabel; suave Walter Gieseking (now in Switzerland); rippling-fingered Moriz Rosenthal, 79-year-old pupil of Liszt...
...conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage," and on which he wrote a 40,000-word thesis which may be regarded as the Magna Charta for the hidden eyes of the New Order...