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...groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
...clock tomorrow night, the Reverend W. R. Matthews, M.A., will deliver another of the William Belden Noble lectures in Emerson D. The subject of his talk will be "The Changing Background of Religious Thought...
...Freshman Year he may secure the additional eighteen required credit hours by taking several of the remaining two dozen of unrelated courses. Each may lead him into a detailed consideration of the lives of the minor bards of a narrowly limited period, although he has never received the background necessary to an intelligent appreciation of them...
...doing Mr. Kellogg at last gave a definite and constructive turn to the tedious correspondence which he has kept up on the subject of such a treaty with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (TIME, July 4, et seq,). Copies of the Briand-Kellogg correspondence were tactfully enclosed as background material by Secretary Kellogg in his notes to the Powers of last week. The whole point of the notes, however, was to submit to the Powers a tentative multilateral treaty text which is essentially Mr. Kellogg's own conception. Brief, this treaty text contains only three articles...
...Edgell devotes one short chapter to the development of our various styles as a background for the main body of the work, which deals almost exclusively with contemporary structures. The book is divided according to the purpose of the buildings considered, the divisions being three in number: domestic and academic, ecclesiastical and monumental, and commercial. Mr. Edgell perhaps is most satisfying in his treatment of this last class--the most characteristically new and native...