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...Burke's plea for the adoption of the rhythm of ragtime by the musician he writes: "A queer accusation against it is that of monotony," and proceeds to show in disproof that several hundred different combinations of eighth notes are possible in a measure of four beats. True, doubtless, but there is in practice, very little variety in the grouping of these combinations in the phrase--often a constant repetition of a two measure group--and practically none in the arrangement of the several phrases. The insistency of the syncopation only aggravates the obviousness of the phraseology and the resulting...
...Withington, whose class was the first to adopt the plan of Senior dormitories, spoke from close personal experience of the contribution that the Seniors make to the real Harvard democracy, by rooming in the Yard together. The average Harvard man is one who pursues, more or less, the course of developing individually in his years here. That individually is not by any means lost in the Senior dormitories, and it is really the average man's individuality which makes for the true democracy here, which is the judging of a man by what he accomplishes in College...
...world when the opportunity for the individual man has been so great as it is in the years that lie immediately before us today. The world is more plastic than it has ever been before; the world is less held by its fixed traditions. It is more ready to adopt new ideas; it is more ready to turn into new paths. It is less content with the conditions it has reached, the results already achieved, than it has been in any period of history. The world is ready to follow...
...adopt a zoning system, devoting certain regions to residence purposes, and restricting appartment houses to certain clearly defined localities...
...Governing Board of the Harvard Union and the Executive Committee of the Harvard Federation of Territorial Clubs at a joint meeting have agreed upon the following plan for those clubs of the Federation who desire to adopt it, subject to the conditions mentioned below. The Union has allotted the Assembly Room permanently to the Federation for use as a club room and meeting place, the room to be fitted out suitably. All men at present members of the clubs adopting the plan will be entitled to the use of the room during the rest of their College course...