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...Erie, Pa., high-school children (watched by a chemistry instructor) set out to investigate. Filling a bowl with equal parts of whisky and water, they placed therein a red perch. It lived four seconds. A bullfrog lasted 13 seconds, a bass one minute, a sunfish four minutes. Then a tadpole was dropped into the bowl. It lived...
Disgusted with the lack of the "old-fashioned bull bass" in the Cornell glee club, an undergraduate in that university has offered the first heartfelt diagnosis of what is wrong with American education. "What this university needs," he says, "what all American universities need just now, is less intellect and more boys who shave blue and chew tobacco, and who, when they sing in the back room, can produce those rumbling profundo notes from the waist line...
...acquirement of learning is entirely Allen to the popular conception of a college education. Tenors who do not chew may go elsewhere and do as they please so long as they refrain from undermining the he-man's college. Let the academic shades be sacred to the "bull bass" and the quiet enjoyment of Climax plug...
...battle; King David sitting in judgment over his people, stroking the black wires of his beard with fingers that have forgotten the harp; David, old and a prophet, remembering past enchantments and past ills-this cycle in the sounds of a limited wind-choir, a piano, harmonium, celesta, double-bass and percussion, was heard last week in Manhattan -Arthur Honegger's "Symphonic Psalm," performed by the Society of the Friends of Music...
...engaged with two rows of levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...