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...assembly with a Latin address in which Dr. Beck himself was unable to discover a single error. A brief quotation from this eloquent production will be sufficient to exhibit its character: 'Caveat emptor; corpus delicti; ex post facto; dies irae; e pluribus unum; usque ad nauseam; Ursa Major; sic semper tyrannis; quid pro quo; requiescat in pace'. Now this foolery was immensely taking in the day of it. . . The story was, on the whole, so good as showing how the man of the people could triumph over the crafts and subtleties of classical pundits that all Philistia wanted to believe...
...observation of a famous old Roman, "ex Africa semper aliquid novi"--which might be liberally rendered as "you never can tell what will happen next" is quite as applicable now as on the day of its utterance. Some time ago the students of a western university received through the mail advertising matter from a novel variety of tutoring school, which offered, for a specified consideration, to do all their thinking. A short time afterward the faculty editors of the alumni bulletin of a well known institution were sent catalogues of one hundred prepared speeches, "suitable for any occasion", on such...
...regular program of the "Pops" concert at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall is as follows: 1. March. "Semper Fidelis" Sousa 2. Overture to "Mignon" Thomas 3. Waltz, "Waves of the Danube" Ivanovici 4. Fantasia, "The Jewels of the Madonna" Wolf-Ferrari 5. Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner 6. Gypsy Dance from "Henry VIII" Saint-Saens 7. Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbach 8. Finnish Rhapsody Glazounov 9. Fantasia, "II Trovatore" Vardi 10. En Sourdine Tellam 11. American Fantasy Herbert
...Waltz, "The Kiss" Arditi 4. Fantasia, "Tales of Hoffmann" Oflenbach 5. Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakoff 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. German Dance, Ride" "The Sleigh Mozart 8. Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert 10. Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song" Strauss 11. March, "Semper Fidelis" Sousa
...Papillons, Fontbonne (Flute Solo, Mr. Brooks). 7. Dance of the Sylphs from "The Damnation of Faust," Berlioz 8. Dance Macabre, Saint-Saens 9. Overture, "Light Cavalry," Suppe 10. Clair de la Lune, Marquarre Violin, Mr. Hoffman. Harp, Mr. Holy. Organ, Mr. Marshall. 11. Czardas from "Coppelia," Delibes 12. March, "Semper Fidelis," Sousa