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More & more U. S. concertgoers are discovering a new and painless way to enjoy music in the summer. They lie on the ground wrapped in blankets, gaze at the stars, spoon a bit, doze off, take their symphonies between nods. This detached, easygoing way of listening can be indulged on the outskirts of many of the outdoor music festivals that...
...Albany train whistle. He says it is on time. That is all there is to Our Town, the picture. Our Town, the poem about the American village, has meanings which do not end there. Poet Edgar Lee Masters caught them in five lines of an epitaph in Spoon River...
Harassed by bad weather and bad luck the lacrosse team dropped two games to Stevens Institute and the West Pointers respectively last week. But these defeats belie the potential strength of Coach Johnnie Wither-spoon's ten, and they should begin to click again in this afternoon's conquest...
Canned knowledge, the spoon-feeding of the mass reviews, and the so-called educational guidance of the schools are incompatible with the aims of Harvard. The struggle of the University to free itself from this "old man of the sea" cannot be given up. Already it is written ineradicable into University policy. Dean Hanford's Annual Report contains an indictment of the schools, and the newly-established University tutoring system at least shows that the authorities are determined to act. There is much more that the University can and should do. Badly organized courses, dull lecturers, and unhelpful section...
...traditional boast of many a U. S. politico has been: ". . . Up from nothing." Bob Taft came up from plenty. Says he, who had more than one silver spoon in his cradle: "One with a family name has a lot to live up to." But Lawyer Taft, Yale '10, put the spoons to work. Uncle Charles had a chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this...