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...rooms are filled with drawings and prints among which are sixteenth century drawings, a woodcut of Durer, etchings by Jacques Callot, and lithographs by Goya and Daumier. The collection also includes the famous Mlle. Eglantine color lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec, works by Renoir and Rouault, and some by Americans such as Ben Shahn...
...saga of Williams' sixteenth season is already legend. At 39, he was the oldest man ever to win the batting crown, hitting a fantastic .388, compared to Mantle's .365. Williams also poled thirty-eight homers, four more than Mantle. In the most significant single numerical gauge of a hitter's worth, the slugging percentage, Mantle accumulated a mark of .665. This was much less than Williams' .731, the highest record recorded in either league since Williams' 1941 season...
Cornell's two remaining scorers were sixteenth and seventeenth; Eddie Martin of Harvard was twentieth...
This protection of the individual was an outgrowth of the inquisitions of ecclesiastical courts in England in the sixteenth century. It was a protest against tyranny, and Virginia made the Fifth part of the price of ratifying the Constitution because history has demonstrated that the need for the protection is abiding. And history has also demonstrated that, however this section of the amendment may be misused, its necessity to a free society remains paramount...
During the first half of the Friday evening program in Paine Hall, this enthusism did not wholly make up for the general insensitivity of the performances. The Chorus sang first a selection of old rounds and canons, followed by short works of Fifteenth and Sixteenth century composers--Senfl, Hassler, and others less obscure. It is easy to overdo nuance in very early music, but the Chorus did not use enough. The impression was not that they were making a deliberate attempt to sing with great reserve, but rather that little careful thought had been given to the matter of dynamics...