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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anton Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is being played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at this week's concerts. The composer was a native of Upper Austria whose course in music was largely guided by the inspiring leadership of his great symphonic predecessor, Beethoven. Like the latter, he composed nine symphonies of which the Seventh (written in 1883) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest. It is typical of all his works in that the religious root is all-important; and also by virtue of the close coordination of the first three movements leading to a climax in the finale. Especially...
...beginning the Adviser system was set up to do for Freshmen what the Tutorial was meant to do, and, it must be said, has done for the upper three classes. For the first year man, just released from the regimentation of prep school life, some sort of nature leadership is definitely needed, and it was hoped that the Advisers would be able to hack the trail through the wilderness of the early months in college. More important and concrete than this friendly guidance, the duty of the Adviser was to aid in the choice of courses during the first year...
...Harvard team had the upper hand throughout the game and literally monopolized the puck during the second and third periods. The five goal rally in the middle frame left the Tigers in such a sorry state that the playoff was announced over the loudspeaker system just before the third period started. During the last period, Princeton was on its side of the blue line 80 per cent of the time...
...During December 1934 . . . I dispatched a Bush Negro named Paje with two boys to the upper river. He returned in February of 1935 and stated that while at an Indian Village (name unknown), he was told of a white man who had come out of the sky, had both legs broken and was living in an Indian Village only three hours from where...
Speakers for the Brown debate, which will be in the Upper Common Room of the Union at 7.15 o'clock, will be Lawrence F. Ebb, Frank P. Davidson and Richard H. Sullivan...