Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goosens's unhackneyed programme comprises three works new to these concerts and a rarely played Tschaikovsky symphony. The first number, Handel's Overture to the "Occasional Oratorio" (the "Occasion" having been to celebrate the second Stuart rising against the House of Hanover in 1745), is a powerful and exhilarating piece which suffers in performance only from the cruelly high and long trumpet parts typical of the early 18th century. There are three movements: a grave introduction and quasi-fugal allegro, a fine slow movement with oboe solo, and a rousing finale...
Also in order would be a drastic extension of freshman tutorial to include at least several more groups on the Rank List. Obviously in this second capacity it benefits the average as well as the honors student. A corollary of this step is the restriction of tutorial reading assignments so that too much extra work will not be placed upon those students who cannot well bear...
Further honor was gained by Cliff Wilson '39, defensive backfield ace, and Ken Booth '39, Varsity tackle for the last two years, who were given posts on the second and third teams respectively...
...American Landscape," by Elmer Rice, is an intensely interesting play. The dramatist has elected as his theme one which is three fold; first, to how great a degree should a man of illustrious forebears allow himself to be governed by the ethics of his ancestors; second, if faced by circumstances of ebbing health and wealth, how much of his ancient heritage is he morally obliged to pass on to his immediate posterity; and, third, when his family has received the tangible evidence of its historic past, is that evidence to be cherished and held at all cost...
...second act that Mr. Rice falters. The author weakens his position by choosing that Captain Dale sell the ancestral seat to the "German-American Culture Society," presently launching his characters into vehement tirades of anti Nazi propaganda; furthermore he limits his point of view by making one of Dale's ancestors a rabid Northerner, and another no less a personage than Harriet Beecher Stowe...