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...score was by an old hand at setting Stein to song, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, who wrote the music for Gertrude's Four Saints in Three Acts. Since the business on stage (involving among others Ulysses S. Grant, Thaddeus Stevens, Daniel Webster and an angel) was pretty complicated, Thomson kept his music harmonically simple, rarely dissonant and sometimes hymnlike, and his adroit handling of the voices added some new inflections to Steinese...
Dudley Hall, center for the College's 380 commuters, boasts a library including Webster's Dictionary, a few tired periodicals, and a copy of "Campaigning for Christ"--a collection which adds up to about two pages per member. Commuters are forced to buck Widener's waiting lit, its frightful lighting system and depressing atmosphere in order to read many widely used volumes which residents can peruse in the comfort of House libraries. If commuters wish to check books out overnight they are put to the further inconvenience of remaining at Widener or Boylston until nine o'clock...
...Bald Doctor," as Andover's 757 boys call him, had never wanted to be headmaster. He was the school's liveliest and most popular teacher, who enjoyed classroom work, also enjoyed his after-hours leisure, in which he wrote biographies (Choate, Webster, Coolidge). As the headmaster he still tried to call the boys by name, but often got them wrong. Said he last week: "My main regret is that I haven't been able to see as much of the individual boys as I wanted to. . . . I don't think I'm very popular...
...WEBSTER B. OTIS Pasadena, Calif...
...weeks ago in Toledo one of my constituents caught me in a restaurant and held me from 11:30 to 3 o'clock. . . . He had been reading about the days when Calhoun, Clay, Webster, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and a few others were alive and active. In those days, he said to me, there were statesmen. . . . 'You members,' he said to me, ought to be statesmen. You as good as promised when you ran for office that you would be statesmen...