Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other evening Mr. Mengelberg and the Philharmonic orchestra applied themselves to a laborious task. This was Mahler's Seventh Symphony, which represents hard work for all hands through a full hour and a half. The result of the adventure was to renew the loud chorus of those who dislike Mahler's music. They are many, and their dislike is intense. The criticisms of the work in the morning papers were savage...
Yale has set aside Washington's birthday as an annual day when its alumni return to New Haven and renew their acquaintance with their university. Through a program of speeches by faculty and undergraduates, athletic events, and still other entertainments, the life of the college is presented to the alumnus in vivid and concentrated form. In one day he can restore his memory of "bright college years", discover what changes and developments have occurred, and learn first-hand about the present-day needs of the college...
...present, Harvard offers most of its alumni only one time at which they can renew their personal contact. That is at Commencement, when student affairs are not proceeding on their normal plan, three-fourths of the undergraduates have left Cambridge, and the alumni themselves are so occupied with reunions that they have little chance to refresh their acquaintance with college opinions and problems. Clearly, a day such as Yale's, in the middle of term-time, would provide the closer touch that is needed. And it would not only be of advantage to the alumni, but might help the students...
...these two, after trying three times himself without success, was instrumental in putting Woodrow Wilson in the White House; the other hoped to succeed him and saw his hopes dashed temporarily at San Francisco in 1920. Both battle-scarred, as they are, already advance to renew the attack...
...Advocate" will renew a custom of the past tonight, when it gives the first of a series of "coffee parties" in the Sanctum. Professor J. L. Lowes '03 G. will be the guest of honor...