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English A is one of the most maligned courses in the university. Being compulsory for all who fail to attain a grade of 75% in the English entrance examinations, it has lost none of the stigma attached to any course vitiated by an aura of compulsion. Such a course by no means presents a simple problem to its instructors, for students expecting to be bored by the repetition of grammatical rules bring to the course no interests of their own. In view of these facts, it might be well in justice to English A and its instructors to reconsider...
...belt made of twisted straw and paper streamers, looks as if he were proud of having just swallowed a medicine ball. He is the yokozuna (champion) of Japanese sumo (wrestling). Fortnight ago in Tokyo, some 10,000 yapping devotees of Japan's most ancient & honorable sport saw him attain this distinction in the final of the semi-annual national tournament in the Kokugi-kan amphitheatre. Spry little Musashiyama, defending yokozuna, ten years younger than Tama-nishiki and 100 lb. lighter, gave a miserable account of himself from the start of the ten-day round robin. Not he but Omekawa...
...Russian choruses are essentially the same. Individual voices have a natural, intrained quality. In a well-disciplined ensemble they blend to make sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work...
...proper and desired timbre, were trained to be sold as sopranos, not only for the choruses in theatres, but also, strange to state, for the choirs of the Catholic churches of Italy, where their unnatural voices were highly prized, and found ready sale. Those castrati whose voices did not attain merchantable pitch and tone, became useless and valueless commodities in Italy, and they were shamelessly sold into slavery by the so-called civilized and Christian Italians to serve as eunuchs in the harems of the Infidels of Northern Africa and Turkey. Following Pope Leo's comparatively recent ban upon...
...history, this testimonial to the good faith of the most important power in eastern waters. Not even the most ardent anti Japanese trouble maker in this country can help but be convinced by ambassador Saito's disarming array of facts that Japan's only and chief desire is to attain and maintain the friendship and good will of the world towards...