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Taken as a whole, the number shows variety in subject, individuality of treatment, sympathy with social and literary interests of the moment, and knowledge of newer technique: In a word it maintains the traditions of the magazine...
...giving each morning in the Chapel; just after the morning service. Men who are taking examinations can spend the ten or fifteen minutes between the close of the service and the beginning of the examinations in no better way than in hearing this music. If we can take the word of those who have tried this means of preparation we are sure that it leaves the mind far clearer and more capable of its best efforts than the eleventh hour cramming which usually fills the few minutes between breakfast and examinations: At any rate it could do no harm...
...Word has recently been received that Johns Hopkins, champion of the southern division of the Intercollegiate Lacrosse League, will be unable to play the University team, champion of the northern division, for the intercollegiate championship of the United States. Since the game in which Johns Hopkins defeated the Harvard team during the southern trip was merely a practice game, the championship will remain undecided this year...
...live dodo, his pleasure, but not his surprise, might be greater than that of a music-lover of 1913 on finding himself confronted with Mr. Goepp's "Is Wagner a Master?" Mr. Goepp supports his negative answer with all the impressiveness and argumentive force which the printing of the word "no" in italics can confer. However, the right to his own opinion is one far from the present reviewer be the attempt to dissuade Mr. Goepp from his honest conviction that Wagner was "destructive of melody," that his career was "decadent," and what...
Sweeping generalizations, slap-dash impressions and random notions calmly labelled "facts," all delivered pell-mell in a kind of word-storm, seriously impair the value of the article "Wagner--After the Noise of Battle," by H. K. Moderwell '12. For example, if anyone of the ancient objections to Wagner's voiceparts. has been amply refuted by the experience of the last forty years, it is that they "tend to tear his singers to pieces," as the author of this article affirms. It has, on the contrary, been observed again and again that the only singers whose voices have been seriously...