Word: russian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University and Radcliffe Glee Clubs will assist the Russian Music Society of Boston in giving a concert in Copley Theatre this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The concert is for the benefit wounded allied soldiers, and for the widows and orphans of those countries...
...Mansfield, "Beauty and the Beast"--refreshing, if not at times inspiring, in its plea for individuality in these days when there is so much talk about crushing out individuality, for the sake of democratic solidarity. In his admiration of Tolstoy and "the individuality of Russian art," Mr. Mansfield, to be sure, may not seem himself especially individual. Russian art is very much the fashion nowadays. But Mr. Mansfield is entirely right in insisting that the tradition of our college is to preserve individuality. "What we are concerned with, particularly at Harvard, where we are the defenders of the faith...
Some of the world-famous artists who have been soloists at these concerts are Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the Russian pianist; Josef Malkin, violin cellist; John Powell, Sylvain Noack, violinist; Miss Anne Hathaway Gulick, and Mme. Peroux-Williams. Dr. Karl Muck has conducted at all the concerts...
...favorite occupation of socialists and other "radicals" to rain abuse upon the college student for his conservatism. The Alumni Bulletin quotes, for example, the following from a recent book by John Macy '99: "Nothing could be more solidly conservative than American undergraduate youth. Many Russian students are rebels. But American universities can be trusted not to bring forth a revolutionary brat--their twilight sleep is perpetual." The Bulletin disagrees, and gives some instances to prove that there is no "lack either of professors and students with thoughts of their own, or of avenues for their self-expression...
...Among these were many of the most famous of the Cambridge athletes. The total number of Cambridge men who had been decorated, or mentioned in despatches, totalled 714, of whom three had been awarded the Victoria Cross, 52 the D.S.O.'s, 103 had received Military Crosses, and 18 French, Russian and Serbian decorations...