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...balance of last night's program consisted largely of sixteenth-century religious music, American folk songs and spirituals, and a handful of unclassifiable songs. One of the latter was Francois Poulenc's Chanson A Boire, dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club and sung by the Elis. It's a sort of cadenza for chorus, and, despite occasional Gallic touches, did not sound very different from the American folk songs sung separately by both clubs...
ITHACA--A stunning performance by Cornell ruined the varsity cross country team's debut here Saturday as the Big Red triumphed by a 22-33 margin. Cornell's Frank Brockman took first in 27:31 for the five and one-sixteenth mile course, knocking a minute and 10 seconds off his previous best for the year...
...finest of the new accessions are two small linden-wood legionaries of death, carved in the mid-sixteenth century. They reflect the preoccupation with death then prevalent and resemble the skeletal figures in Holbein's Dance of Death, done earlier in the same century. With deft control of the wood, the craftsman of the Busch-Reisinger pieces grimly records the grotesque expressions on the legionaries' faces and the torn flesh as it hangs limply from their skeletons...
...this work, Jordan shows that the beneficence of the new merchant classes and the landed gentry, not of the old nobility and high clergy, was responsible for the vigorous assault on poverty during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...
Work will include a study of some representative eighteenth century battles, the geographical expansion of Europe, the explorations of the sixteenth century and other topics related to the material...