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...House will contain nine single and 23 double Suites, in addition to accommodations for three non-resident and two resident tutors. The public rooms, on the ground floor, will include dressing-rooms, a ladies' cloak-room, and a music room, which will be provided with a piano, a victrola, and a supply of records...
...like to become more familiar with it. Others get a particular enjoyment out of listening to music. These men might feel that they could afford the time and the money to go to the symphony or to various recitals perhaps once a week. Few could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with a pleasure which they cannot enjoy except by going to the Music Building a good quarter of a mile away. To all the House members it will offer a wider, fuller education...
...electric victrola has been installed in a large furnished room in the D entry, and House members who desire to do so may obtain the key to the room at the McKinlock Hall library desk. Slips must be signed before records can be taken from the library for use either in the music room or in students' own rooms. It is planned to have the library of scores coincide as closely as possible with the collection of records so that music lovers may follow the notes with their eyes as well as their ears. The latest additions from the special...
...already partially forgotten five years before. A pudgy Irish youth, the son of a day laborer who raised a large family in Wallingford, Conn, and Brooklyn, he had stopped going to school when he was 15, sold candy on trains, acted in small time vaudeville, been an agent for Victrola records. There was nothing then to confirm his impression that he was a singer except the fact that his mother, annoyed by his childish caterwaulings, had often given him a nickel to keep quiet. Tammany Politician James Hagan helped him get jobs?the first one singing ten times...
With the conclusion of the fall clothing drive, approximately a dozen hampers of miscellaneous old clothes, magazines, and victrola records were received by the Brooks House...