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Economics, English, and Romance Languages retain their hold on the first three places, but History has displaced Bio-Chemical Sciences in fourth position...
...have found highest recognition when Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge invited her to give the opening program at the Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington last week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music programs are usually above reproach. But the Lewisohn dancers (who still retain the name of "the Neighborhood Playhouse") offended many a purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote...
...identified in the cinema with the roles of enervated clubmen, sleek playboys, roues too tired to be dashing. Required to impersonate, in The Front Page, a city editor addicted to coarse epithets and unscrupulous behavior, he does so with surprising success, without even removing his boutonniere. In order to retain the services of a reporter who wants to leave town for a more respectable position, he arranges for police to arrest the reporter. "The son of a ?* stole my watch," he says...
Sixty-six grapplers representing 26 universities are competing in the meet, with Oklahoma a strong favorite to retain last year's crown. Klein, undefeated as yet this year, is slated to meet Morford of Cornell College, Iowa, in the semi-finals tomorrow...
Some of the better marksmen returning again this year are: T.C.T. Buckley '32, J.A. Booth '33, K.R. Ludiam '33, Samuel Powel, Jr. '32, and W.M. Wing '31. Buckley has just resigned his post as president of the club and has appointed Ludiam in his place, but he will retain his position as captain of the team...