Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvey Taylor, chairman of the Jubilee Committee, stated yesterday that from all indications this looks as though it would turn out the largest dance ever to be given by a Harvard Freshman class. Besides the 250 girls with their escorts, about 150 Yardlings will probably attend as stags...
...specialization in a House has become a fact it tends to become almost self-perpetuating. New admissions to a House are made with a view to replacing the graduating students who are leaving each tutor; if twenty men in economics are leaving, twenty more economics concentrators will be admitted. Though this is not a hard and fast rule, it is one guide to admissions...
...Feild must go, the Fogg will stay though condemned by its students. Despite its brilliant exterior, it is a rotting hulk aimlessly floating on a sea of meaningless and unrelated detail. The study of fine arts has become largely a matter of identifying pictures. This is fine for embryo museum experts. But when it comes to aiding undergraduates to relate fine arts to the life and thought of an epoch, particularly the epoch we are living in, the department is inadequate, barren, and moribund...
...perform three unusually interesting selections: Beethoven's "Sonata for Horn and Piano" op. 17; the Brahms "Clarinet and Piano Sonata" op. 120, no. 2; and the Mozart "Quintet for Winds and Piano." The Mozart Quintet is a charming example of his later style, and the rather sombre Brahms Sonata, though occasionally heard in the arrangement for viola, is seldom played in the original version...
...Though one may be prejudiced against concerts of this kind because he is not asked to pay for them, one should be forced to admit that the choice of music is often far above average; and when the performance is on a similar plane, as can be expected in these two concerts, the result will give the greatest possible pleasure to the listener and--what is almost as important--to the performer...