Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physicians 40 years ago, the living brain was a jungle of tangled nerve fibres, a mass of corrugated grey tissue. A few brave men dared to perform brain operations, but most of their patients died. In 1905 young Surgeon Harvey Williams Cushing penetrated this wilderness, and in 28 years, almost singlehanded, he perfected the technique of brain and nerve operations. Today, thanks to Dr. Cushing, an operation for brain tumor is no more dangerous than a stomach operation...
...rabbit out of his hat. Assisted by the young, well-trained Westminster Choir of Princeton, N. J., the Philharmonic gave Manhattan an earful of Gioachino Antonio Rossini's rare Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass), which is neither little nor solemn. The Mass took almost two hours to perform, was full of the impish but not impious gaiety of Rossini's comic operas (Ceneventola, The Barber of Seville). Rossini, one of the laziest and wittiest of all composers, wrote his Solemn Mass in 1863 at the age of 71, called it his "last mortal sin," marked one passage...
...route for New York Saturday, the Club will perform first at the Harvard Club in that city. After stops in Syracuse and Cleveland, the group will sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two concerts. As a special feature, there will be a broadcast at Rochester, thus bringing to a close nine days crammed with activity...
Almost all of last fall's Varsity squad members who are eligible for another year of competition are expected to be on hand for the spring's drill on fundamentals. Notable absentees will be tackle Tom Healey, who has mound duties to perform for Floyd Stahl's baseball team, and George Downing another tackle, who doubles between football and track...
...future? It would seem best to abolish elections positively and definitely. There will probably be attempts to revive them in some form or other-one proposal being that the Yardlings should elect their Jubilee and Smoker Chairmen, these men to perform a definite function. This eliminates one cardinal objection: that officers were elected as meaningless figure-heads. It still falls before the greater objection that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine...