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...become educated enough to recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...
...Marshal, Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47 presented the Senior Class colors to Richard W. Kimball '50 and Paul J. Douglas '50, who received the banner in behalf of the Freshman Class. O'Donnell later paid an extemporaneous tribute to retiring Dean Hanford. The University Band provided the musical background, and the ceremonies ended with the singing of the Class Ode, which was composed by Harold C. Fleming '44, of Atlanta, Georgia...
...United States furnishes particularly good opportunities for the moaners and groaners. Its material wealth forms a perfect background against which to accentuate its inept statesmanship, its political stupidity, its immorality, social injustice and inequality, the break up of its families and churches, and the pitiful inadequacy of its educational facilities. And their charges are true, but they are not the whole story. From the times of the earliest settlers in Massachusetts, the society of the United States has been built upon the bifurcation of an economic system which emphasizes acquisitiveness and a religion which makes every man his brother...
Little but Loud. The background of Congress' action was enough to make World Businessman Clayton give up in despair. Wool-growing is not a vital U.S. industry. It is a small, uneconomic business which assays at less than 1/1000 of the national income. But it has powerful friends-Congressmen and Senators from 23 wool-growing states, who can bleat as loudly as storm-whipped rams while trading support of bills to protect Southern peanut-growers for bills to protect Western sheep-raisers...
...people of the novel are the inhabitants of a Maine coastal village and a few summer visitors who stayed. The youngsters whose brief love affair is doomed by deep differences in background and small-town backbiting are unusual only because Miss Athas reveals their emotions so delicately...