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...clock this morning, however, for the exertions of a vagabond demand an occasional late sleep. I am going to Harvard into heir Professor Wright on his course on that greatest period of all French literature, the seventeenth century. Professor Wright will continue his discussion of Racine...
...that the prestige of the pianoforte is failing. Last month, for instance, one Hugh Blaker wrote a letter to the London Spectator: "Sir, If it is correct that the popularity of the piano is declining, it will be the greatest stimulus to the appreciation of pure music since the Seventeenth Century. Almost all the vulgarity and over-cleverness of modern musical expression can be traced to the universal cult of the piano; this mechanical pattering . . . a hopeless jumble of misdirected energy. . . . There is nothing more laughable than to read a modern explanatory concert program . . . debasement in musical taste mainly...
When one reads today of the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is very difficult to make real the issues which were involved and which, in themselves, indicate the greatest difference between the spirit of that age and this. Likewise, when one reads of the conflict now going on at Yale for the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel, it taxes the imagination to understand how such a thing can be possible in a community which everybody believes is more enlightened than that, say, of Dayton, Tennessee...
...greatest living authorities on the English drama from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, is offering for the first half year English 38 and English 15, two courses dealing with the early stage. In English 38, Mr. Lawrence takes up the English theatre in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dealing in detail with the structure, the public, and the players of the stage during this period. English 15, which is primarily for graduates, deals with studies and problems in the history of the theatre at this time...
...nothing please Comrade Gulliver? Ah, yes! confessed "an unwilling admiration for express elevators. 'First Stop The Seventeenth Floor' a gigantic upward leap...