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...international jury, composed of ten able musicians and headed by famed Walter Johannes Damrosch, sat in Vienna last week. The jury wished to award a $10,000 prize to someone for the best musical composition in the vein of Franz Schubert, whose centennial the Viennese are this year celebrating. If possible, they wished to select a satisfactory completion, by the hand of some contemporary, of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony...
...more data. In 1628 a slim volume of 72 pages with two plates of diagrams came out under his name-72 pages of clear, logical, dignified exposition in which the whole existing theory of the blood was demolished. Homer, Aristotle, Plato, every village barber who had ever breathed a vein had known that the blood moved but until the hawkeyed Harvey, no one knew...
...many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals. Yet it is a testing wand which, if the student is earnest, often betrays many an unknown vein...
...Lampoon can continue to produce issues in the current vein there is every reason to believe that it will regain the prestige it acquired with the publication of its "Transcript" issue and its still more celebrated and creditable Lasky number. That it should again play a ponderable part in Cambridge life must be the ambition of every editor, and a few New Yorker parodies would serve as admirable pick-me-ups to cure the hangover from which it has suffered. What Lampy needs now is not salts, but a few tall ones to keep up its good, nay, excellent spirits...
Lord Rothermere, secure in the knowledge that Il Duce is now politically a Black, wrote on, last week, in somewhat mystic vein...