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When Paul Whiteman and his orchestra play at Symphony Hall this Sunday, the audience will hear a suito of distinctly modern background and original theme, composed by John Walde Green...
...winter-an adaptation so ambitiously conceived and brilliantly executed that it is hard to imagine how the play could have been more than a preliminary outline. Cavalcade, which is essentially the history of one English family, becomes, by implication, a history, almost a definition, of England. Against its spacious background, the subsidiary stories in Cavalcade have a sharp and eloquent perspective which Director Frank Lloyd emphasized by using, not the fulsome rhetoric with which the cinema usually attempts the epic manner, but a sort of cinematic shorthand. The significance to England of Queen Victoria's death becomes apparent from...
...attainments of a broadly educated man. The study of engineering is necessarily concentrated and highly specialized. It should, therefore, be preceded by preparation designed not only to train the student in mathematics and the sciences specifically required for technical instruction, but also to give him an adequate background of general knowledge. The preparation afforded by a program of study leading to, or equivalent to, the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in institutions of high standing meets these needs if the subjects are wisely selected...
...however, tutors and advisers have begun to observe the advantages to be gained from a more liberal education. In spite of this slowly changing attitude, there remains a conviction, or rather, a habit, which leads unfortunates to the laboratories in droves. Disregarding the well known advantages of a "cultural background" many men continue to elect courses in Biology, which involve a great deal of laboratory work, and which will later be almost duplicated in medical school. Their time is spent crouched over a defunct dog-fish, while literature and life alike are closed to them...
...work, and which, before the senior year, has no particular regard to general examinations. In the first two years. I make some attempt to ascertain the student's interests and abilities, and to help him start work in those fields he is best adapted to: we fill in b background, and pursue literary hobbies, establishing a method of study. In the senior year the impending examinations demand that we fill obvious gaps in the field as a whole, so that the student has nodding acquaintance with all the major writers...