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...Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay for a Bach concerto. A whimsical Sinfonia Domestica, 1929, conducted by John Philip Sousa, had Pianists Bauer and Schelling pushing lawnmowers while others of equal renown played on typewriters...
...American Anthropological Association in the twenty-eighth annual meeting of that association, held in Poughkeepsie, New York, during the Christmas recess. Professor Tozzer is chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard at the present time. His work among ancient ruins in Latin America has gained him international renown. During the Mexican border trouble in 1914, Professor Tozzer was under fire at Vera Cruz, where he was conducting research work. He is the holder of three degrees from Harvard University...
...surprised if he hobbies out on to the field Saturday and discards his crutches in a moment of weakness to the dismay of a stalwart Crimson defense. Other famous cripples have made sports history as for example the Yankee team of last year and Erwin Gehrke of Yale-Harvard renown...
...sense, Professor Palmer is a powerful bond connecting the little New England college of the seventies with the University of today. He is one who grew with the growth of Harvard; who saw, the while his own name attained distinction, the institution he represented increasing likewise in influence and renown. His life through the years of his active teaching here ran a course of development parallel to that of Harvard; nor has he allowed himself since his retirement to follow merely at a distance the march of the University. His dwelling, and in the fuller meaning, his life, have remained...
...Jerusalem's famed Wailing Wall were "spontaneous or pre-conceived." This evidence will be sifted by a special British parliamentary com- mission, created last week by Baron Passfield and chairmanned by Sir Walter Shaw, recently Chief Justice of the British Straits Settlements, a colonial jurist of tact and renown...