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...preface to the fact that today a student vagabond has the opportunity of hearing about the East in fairly early as well as modern times. Unfortunately, however, he must choose whether he will hear Professor Usher in Widener U on trade to the East in the sixteenth century of Professor Hornbeck in Harvard 5 on the United States war and treatles with China in the years 1844 and 1858, since both of them come at 9 o'clock...
...System of the 13th Sound." Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones and sixteenth-tones, and a chromatic scale in which Mr. Carillo claimed he crowded 96 tones into a single octave. At Conductor Stokowski's command, specially trained musicians first produced on the familiar violin, cello and horn, intervals smaller than the semitone. Then new and strange gifts to Orpheus from Mr. Carillo were played...
...meet new problems which have presented themselves and which have sometimes demanded a change in plan. The decision was made to build the court--the principal architectural feature of the interior--of Italian Travertine. Early in the spring of 1926 an opportunity arose to purchase a very beautiful, early sixteenth-century French wooden ceiling which had originally been a part of a house in Dijon. This is admirably suited to the large hall on the main floor. Several generous subscriptions have helped us to meet these added expenses...
...sudden jump to Boston's early spring. Some of the acts had distinct possibilities but they never seemed to materialize. Also most of them were executed so crudely that it required some effort to be overcome by their humor. The exception was an operatic version of a sixteenth century "pick up" in the best New Yorkese of the twentieth century. Johnny Dooley carried off the comedy honors in this, and the singing was by far the best of the evening. Another Dooley production, his strong man act, was quite a bright spot until it died from over-exposure. Joe Cook...
...funeral of one who quite his life at the tender age of three score and ton. Roger Bacon in the thirteenth century announced to his rather hostile contempories that all that was necessary to outlive one's friends was a draught of essence of reindeer. Spaniards in the sixteenth century tramped their way to fever and death in the swamps to Florida all for a few bubbles in the fountain of youth. Ladies of the present with a more practical turn of mind submit to the beautifying tortures of the face litter. But as Mr.--Wells points out science threatens...