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...Walter Damrosch, has had wider influence on music in the U. S. than any other group. It has played before approximately 8,000,000 people, has traveled approximately 400,000 miles. Because the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer willed $500,000 to the Philharmonic, it could not legally abandon its identity. Therefore, it changed its name to Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York and at once absorbed the Symphony's directorate. Each orchestra will maintain its separate identity until the end of the present season. Of the new Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, chairman...
...found, however, that these or other measures fail to remedy the present linguistic deficiencies of the average Harvard student, the CRIMSON urges that Harvard frankly abandon the existing pretense that all her graduates are versed in any language other than English...
...That Mr. Loree would abandon his fifth trunk system plan. (TIME, April...
...listless leader, Mr. Lyles his henchman. There are also more strenuous Bedlamites from Harlem who break into loud melodious ululations; there is a skilful and frantically energetic black and blues orchestra and marty lively tappers and prancers of whom one, name unspecified, brandishes her mahogany limbs with incredibly vicious abandon...
Perhaps it is still too early to pass judgement upon a scheme which has not yet been fully worked out. In any case it will be impossible to abandon the new plan until the engagements undertaken under it have been discharged. Meanwhile, however, the Harvard athletic authorities might do well to pause before proceding on a course which at best seems fraught with dangers...