Word: russion
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...Ibis of the Lampoon. The same John Reed wrote the words to the football song "Score," and created the Paterson strike pageant. The same Reed chummed with the romantic Villa in Mexico and, not much later, was under indictment in a half-score of sedition cases for defending the Russion Revolution in this country. He changed tremendously in the decade of upheaval from '10 to '12 but his change had been in intensity and not in attitude. While he was one with the aesthetes and the play-boys of the prewar Harvard society he mocked--not violently, but still...
...Pathetic Symphony is a strong rock to which any type of concert cancling and be sure of success. Nowhere else did Tschalkowsky so overwhelmingly give forth the somber Russion feeling, and at the same time express the sadness of the world. The work is pregnant with the gloom of Schopenhauer and the whole nineteenth century on the Continent; but its mood is one that seizes the present too, and shouts the futility of human striving. There are few works in music more universally moving...
Admiral Behrens, Russion delegate, attracted much attention. A typical aristocrat of the Tsarist regime, speaking French fluently, he showed great interest in the League and in the Conference...
...April 15 was selected at the evening for the annual concert in Sanders Theatre. Though the program has not yet been definitely settled, it is fairly certain that selections from Handel and Charpentier will be played; also Beethoven's overture to Coriolanus. The feature number will be a new Russion symphony, by Borodin which has been especially, secured for this concert by W. N. Hewitt 1G., the conductor. It will be the first performance of this symphony before an American audience...
...Breaking Point" by James Savery '11, deals with an American criminologist, his Russion wife, his brother-in-law, his secretary, also from St. Petersburg, and a detective. Had the physician known of his brother-in-law's existence, he would not have suspected his wife's fidelity: but he could not have known it without discovering that the man was a murderer,--and this, it is carefully explained, would have destroyed his home. The detective may strike some of us as naive; but he simplifies the task of exposition, and the audience is left in no doubt...