Word: seventh
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Bowdoin will bring seven runners to Cambridge, six of whom were members of the Maine institution's team last year. The veterans are Captain Plaisted, East-mann, Foster, Howes, Miller, and Knoll. The seventh man on the team is Berry. The Bowdoin harriers under Coach Magee's tutelage last season made an excellent showing. In the Maine Intercollegiates the team came in second, being headed only by the University of Maine. In the New England Intercollegiate Cross Country Run last year the Bowdoin runners placed fourth, Maine, Bates, and M. I. T. defeating them in the contest for places...
...SEVENTH HEAVEN - Melodrama with snatches of comedy demonstrating the charm of Helen Menken against a background of the gutters and garrets of Paris in Wartime...
Friday afternoon, in Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Mr. Pierre Monteux opened its forty third season, starting off, as is this year's fashion, with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, wading through the Brahms-Hayden variations, climbing over "La Perl" of Dukas, to the voluptuous heights of the dance of Salome, from Richard Strauss's opera of like name...
...perhaps a commonplace, but in any case worthy of repetition, that Mr. Monteux is particularly successful in music of or relating to the dance; that he finds grateful any bit which he can visualize. Conspicuous was yesterday's program, headed by the Seventh Symphony aptly, we think, dubbed by Wagner, "apotheosis of the dance"; and continuing through more specific apotheoses as conceived by Dukas and Strauss. Conspicuous also was Brahms, conspicuously dull and and diffuse, the one dry spot on an otherwise attractive program...
Lawrence Gilman has called the Seventh Symphony the "most beautiful symphony in the world." Others may and do disagree. But opinion is curiously uniform in praise of this symphony. It is Beethoven at his zenith, technical if not emotional. It is not a big symphony, big as are the third, the fifth or the ninth. It does not belong in or fit into the usual categories. It is unique, and uniquely fascinating. Mr. Monteux's version of it is as an ascending, expanding, dynamic thing, culminating in a veritable rhythmic orgy, was thoroughly logical; to some listeners it seemed that...