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...incompatible with prestige in the latter. He supposes that President Lowell's development of the tutorial system and his hopes for its fostering of scholarship are regarded by alumni as a blow at athletic superiority and a cause of the University's recent defeats in major sport contests. Absurd as all this sounds, Mr. Nichols goes even further. He implies that the tempest of criticism which has stormed about the administration in past months has been aroused by the fear of alumni that Harvard's athletic reputation is at state. What Professor Baker and the rise of the Business School...
...Thomson's article is that the Pierian Sodality Orchestra is rapidly on the decline. This I know is not the case--in either case this matter would seem not to be within the jurisdiction of a "musical critic." It would seem that he draws his conclusion from the absurd caption "unskilled instrumentalists cannot rival professionals"--a statement the fallacy of which in connection with the Pierian Orchestra, made up of students, would at once be apparent to even an "adenoidial moron." Furthermore, were the Pierian Sodality in any such state of affairs, as Mr. Thomson describes, the Music Department...
...biting's immortal." We thought it absurd...
...sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew the age-old controversy: "Should women confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious composition that any female, however talented, should attempt to render?" Such questions are, of course, absurd; nor are there many remaining critics who can establish a reputation for mordacity by frequent quotation of Ruskin's remark that it is the province of man to create and woman to praise. Nevertheless, the fact remains that while orchestras of women are usually adequate, adeptly trained, they are seldom...
...your issue of Feb. 16, you say under the rather absurd heading MILESTONES: "Mr. Dempsey gave his occupation as "business man." Miss Taylor gave her age as 26 (probable age, 32)." I am not interested in either Mr. Dempsey or Miss Taylor. I do not care how old she is. Whether she lies about her age or not is entirely immaterial to most of your subscribers, no doubt. But, I do think it most undignified, in fact little short of childish, for such a magazine as TIME aspires to be to add in parthesis "probable age, 32." That...