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...muscular score, which reminded the enthusiastic audience of the music of Czechoslovakia's Leos (Jenufa) Janacek and Hungary's Bela Bartok. Strongly rhythmic, it combined rich Slovakian folk flavor with pungently powerful orchestration. In Katrena's lament over her fate, strikingly sung by Soprano Anny Schlemm, and in Ondrej's affecting admission of guilt, Suchon provided crowd-rousing vocal high points that might well place The Vortex in the standard operatic literature...
Another performance which fascinated the convention was Dr. Otto Barkan's operation for chronic glaucoma. In this disease the tiny drain called "canal of Schlemm" becomes clogged. It cannot carry away excess fluid which accumulates within the ball of the eye. Internal pressure eventually atrophies the optic nerve, causes blindness. The usual operation for glaucoma punctures the eyeball daintily, lets accumulated fluid escape. However, in many cases the hole soon seals itself, necessitating further operation. Dr. Barkan found that blockade of the canal of Schlemm is often due to grains of pigment which slip in from the iris...
...Trials for 220-yard dash--Harvard 1909: T. Allen, R. M. Gardiner, G. L. Atkins, A. S. Jones, H. F. Howes, R. Lothrop. Brookline: G. L. Treadwell, J. P. Schlemm, Seligman, J. Boyd...
...High jump--Harvard 1909. G. E. Roosevelt, F. P. Farquhar, R. S. Bard, F. R. Beebe, J. P. Thomas, F. S. Preston, R. P. Chandler. Brookline: J. Boyd, L. A. Sargent, G. Hann, A. Adams, J. P. Schlemm...
...pound shot put--Harvard 1909: R. H. Townsend. Brookline: C. Hann, F. Johnson, J. P. Schlemm, L. Johnson, P. Fletcher...