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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University who play these instruments will join the Orchestra next year. The organization has in the past supplied such instruments as the bassoon, oboe, tympani, and double-bass when they are needed, and although in many cases starting with poor material on these instruments for which good players are seldom found in college, it has developed it into good material in the course of the season...
...dark. Autocrat as he is supposed to be, it is significant that the selection of his men has invariably been the majority, if not the unanimous, selection of his coaches and the captain. Questions of policy and of selection are always matters openly discussed at coaches' meetings and seldom if ever has any undergraduate dared to suggest favoritism, club politics, or other reason than merit for a man's selection. Yet under this system the captain has not become subordinated. The football captain leaves his mark on his team as undeniably as ever and his service to the team...
...University and the public. This exhibition, consisting of more than a hundred drawings from the great masters, gives a more intimate acquaintance with the artists than do the finished paintings of the public art galleries. These drawings are the personal and spontaneous expressions which can be seen very seldom. The exhibit, in this case, is made possible only through the generosity of a University graduate, Mr. J. P. Morgan '89. Only the esthetically prodigal will not turn from his beaten track to enjoy...
However that may be, the editors of the Advocate of all classes deserve praise for at least two reasons. Their current number is not in the least "high brow." It is entirely and frankly unpretentious, and frank unpretentiousness is not invariably a characteristic of undergraduate writing. Also it seldom offends by incorrectness of expression. To be sure, one is obliged to ask himself in reading the review of Mr. Masefield's "Good Friday and Other Poems," whether usage has sanctioned as English idiom the illogical phrase, "centre about"? One must also ask himself what the reviewer of Mr. Conrad...
...final performances of the Delta Upsilon production of Shakspere's "Henry IV," Part Two, will be given at the Copley Theatre this afternoon and evening at 2.10 and 8.10 o'clock. This revival of one of Shakspere's seldom acted plays has set a hitherto unattained standard in amateur productions...