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...groups of people ever to sit down to table in one place, proceeded pensively to consume two tons of meat and drink and some food for thought. It was distressing to Penn men to be reminded that their university, which boasts nine firsts* and over 15,000 students, ranks sixteenth in U. S. university endowments.† To alter this state of affairs, Penn's President Thomas Sovereign Gates was thereupon launching a drive for $12,500,000 more endowment...
...than the amount of unpaid taxes. Thus the bidding is in terms of fractions of the property offered, the fractions decreasing as bidders express willingness to accept less & less of the property for the fixed tax sum sought. Usually the fractions go no smaller than one-eighth or one-sixteenth, but at one day's sales in Miami last week the bidding grew so hot that prices spiraled dizzily downward to thousandths, millionths, billionths. then trillionths, finally quadrillionths. Record was set by a man who paid $115.85 for a certificate representing a claim to 1/100 of 1/100...
Under the dome of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, acoustically the finest hall in the country, the Glee Club will offer a program of sixteenth century motets on Friday, May 21, in roder to get the effect of singing in a Gothic cathedral...
...program ranges from sixteenth century religious songs to a contemporary piece by Elliott C. Carter, Jr. '30, which received its first performance by the Glee Club at Milton Academy last winter...
Included on the program are: Two Motets and Two Psalms, by Sweelinck; "O Domini Jesu Christi", a Passion Motel for Men's Voices, by Josquin des Press and the first performance in Boston or Cambridge of Two Religious Songs, by Antonio de Cabezon or an unknown composer of sixteenth century Spain...