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...goes. Every one will agree with Professor Babbitt up to a certain point. Some will become disciples, and others will lay more stress on those sides of literature to which he, on his own admission and intention, does not do justice. The lectures tend to become repetitious; a bit too much time is spent on Rousscan's Confessions; but the course on the whole is a stimulating one and one of the very best advocated in the little green pamphlet. Whether they sit at his feet, or whether they learn from him by "intellectual repulsion," the one thing students cannot...
...hour before midnight the Akron was being buffeted severely by a thunderstorm. Bos'n's Mate Deal went about his business of taking ballast readings, carrying out ominous orders to shift ballast and fuel forward. At his next bit of testimony the committeemen hitched forward in their chairs...
...flagpole-sitting feats and dance marathons there are still some records hung so high and in such out-of-the-way places that few will care to shoot at them. Fortnight ago English airmen flew over Mt. Everest (TIME, April 10). Not so publicized or so spectacular but every bit as jaunty was Aime Felix Tschiffely's recent (1925-27) 10,000-mile horseback ride from Buenos Aires to Washington...
...develop his interest in old ecclesiastical music. He teaches at the American Conservatory of Music, where he put in his own first serious study. Eastern audiences are better acquainted with the music of Howard Hanson. Composer Sowerby's Rochester friend, but discriminating midwesterners regard Sowerby as every bit Hanson's equal, an opinion which many a New Yorker heartily indorsed last week after listening to Prairie...
...students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller was as usual selling .5% beer and chocolate milk shakes, while students clamored for 3.2% beer as soon as possible. President Fred H. Clausen...