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During its extended concert tour last week the Glee Club sang a great deal of noteworthy music. But undoubtedly the high point of the trip, from a musical standpoint at least, was the joint program with Vassar. This opened with Bach's Magnificat, following which the Glee Club sang palestrina's Supplicationes and Psaume 121 sang Milhaud. Next came Vassar's rendition of Andre Caplet's Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and the two choruses joined again in O Vos Omnes by Vaughn Williams. For the climax of the concert E. Harold Gear conducted Zoltan Kodaly's beautiful Te Deum, written...
Chief flaws aimed at were disclosed last spring in the failure of the Class Spread from an enjoyment standpoint and in the mob scene staged by spectators at the Baccalaureate...
...inch "intolerable." The new standard will reduce the inch by 1/508,001 of its present length. Pointing out that the most precise industrial measurements (of wrist pins for piston rods, etc.) are accurate only within one ten-thousandth of an inch, Director Briggs said: "Industry from a practical standpoint will not realize that a change has been made because the change is too small." Not discussed was the effect of a shortened inch on longer measurements: A mile would be approximately ⅛ inch shorter, the U. S. would measure 31 feet 2 inches wider...
...feeling about this bill is that from the standpoint of intelligible legislation it is the most completely conglomerate mess of involved language which was ever perpetrated upon a free people," rumbled Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in the Senate last week. "Is it conceivable . . . that there could be any emergency on earth that would justify it?" rasped North Carolina's Josiah Bailey. "Perhaps it will not work," admitted Nebraska's old George Norris, "but what will work...
Moliere with his wit and sparkle is the man chiefly responsible for making the show worth going to see, and his satire against doctors still gives first-rate entertainment. From the educational standpoint. "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" is a great success to the filled houses that are able to see it; but we should like to see a French movie that is primarily a movie, like "Mayerling," but undefaced by English captions...