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Dear Sir: . . . My organist insists upon dragging his fingers over four or five keys, like an upward run, at least twice in each hymn stanza. He will not play the harmony as is, but manufactures harmonies of his own, with many fancy chromatic chords. His harmony is always thin, and lacking the power of the original as given in the hymn book. . . . He uses his tremolo too much, and drives everybody nearly to tears by his abuse of the chimes. Now he insists upon adding a Vox Humana stop to the organ. If I chant the Communion Service...
...Davis pronounce George the copycat. Dalhart learned the song from an older Whitter phonograph record in 1923, made several mistakes which are also in George's version. The engineer's name was Steve. Dalhart did not understand it on the record so called him Pete. Average, in stanza three, makes no sense. It was airbrakes in the original version...
...only 29 seconds of play, when Captain Crutchfield carried the puck the length of the ice, and passed to McGill, the hardest shooter in the Canadian circuit, who drove the rubber into the net from the dasher. The next three McGill goals came at the end of the first stanza, all within a period of 30 seconds. The Scarlet skaters rang up three more tallies in the second period, again through four and five man rushes...
Coach Stubbs used his goalies at the rate of one a period, and judging from the calibre of the work in this department, he has nothing to worry about. Captain deGive started out in the net, turning in an errorless record. He was replaced by Mittell in the second stanza, and the latter gave way in the last to Ashton Emerson '36, who warded off more rubber than the other two put together. The summary: HARVARD M.I.T. Hasler, Kirkland, Duffey, l.w. l.w., Williams, Notman, Thompson Beale, Dewey, Callaway, c. c., Daley, Healey Holmes, Hallowell, Lincoln, r.w. r.w., Goodwin, Mayo Gleason...
...Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty is also no mean versifier, occasionally no mean poet. His version of the old tale of Leda (originally printed in the Atlantic Monthly) is very Irish. One stanza: Of the tales that daughters...