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...Bayreuth seemed to him almost like betraying Wagner, that in his distress over the whole situation he was past feeling such thrusts as the one last week published in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung: "The great musician, with incorruptible ears ever mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard out of the mighty orchestra that is Germany only the discordant tone." The National Socialist Militant League for German Culture said: "As Germans we are convinced that artistically adequate interpreters of the works of Wagner will be found." Frau Wagner hastily announced that Composer Richard Strauss will conduct...
...address traced the history of research from the time of Francis Bacon to the sixteenth century to the present day. Bacon was the discoverer of scientific research as we now know it, such research, Whitney emphasized, is an organized and continuous search for new truth, and he used a striking example when he referred to the motto of Harvard University "Veritas." Veritas is the ultimate truth and he remarked that research has for centuries been chipping away at "veritas" and will continue to do so as long as any undiscovered truth remains. The problem, he said, is an endless adventure...
...quarters on Holyoke Street, the improvement in equipment would see a like change in the service rendered. To the undergraduate who finds it necessary to consult the University physicians, the more comprehensive office hours, extending with little interruption through the day, and the comfortable waiting rooms with the February sixteenth issue of "Time" are the only evidences of such a change...
Winning their sixteenth meet in 18 starts the Varsity swimming team left the Pittsburgh swimmers in their wake by a score of 52 to 23 at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night. Losing only the low board diving event the Crimson allowed but four seconds and five thirds to the Pittsburgh team, which up to Friday night has been undefeated in its last 14 meets...
...home. The family's income is in the neighborhood of $50 a week, on which they live comfortably in a six-room house or apartment, and the girl spends her entire life at home. She starts to school at the usual age and leaves shortly before her sixteenth birthday. Within a few months she goes to work in an office which is about 30 minutes traveling distance from home. For almost two years she does clerical work about seven and a half hours a day. five and a half days a week. She wears the usual type of clothing...