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...recently decided to increase the size of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra. Last year its membership was fifty. This year it will be increased to full symphonic strength of seventy-eight men. To meet this increase, applicants for all branches of the orchestra will be accepted. The brass and wood wind section will take the largest percentage of recruits. Oboes and bassoons particularly are in demand. There are three vacancies for drummers who can read orchestral arrangements...
Freshmen who play orchestral instruments, and particularly those who play instruments in the brass and wood wind section, are urged to apply for trials next week. Orchestra practices have been so arranged that they will not conflict with College work...
...feature which is planned by the leaders this year will be a bugle and drum corps, candidates for which are especially desired. In addition to men playing these instruments, positions are open to ten violinists, four 'celloists, and players of all brass and reed instruments...
...opportunity for all undergraduate members of the University to join the Dramatic Club orchestra will be given at trials to be held this afternoon between 4 and 6 o'clock at Stoughton 10. Violins, cellos and woodwind and brass instruments are needed for the orchestra, which will play at the spring performances of the club, which take place on May 17, 18, 20 and 21. Two men from the orchestra are elected members of the Dramatic Club each year...
...circle of acquaintances can take the place of what we more technically know as education of course not. The writer's chief stock in trade must be his facility in ideas. Imagination helps; correctness of expression helps; but without fertility in ideas imagination is no more than a sounding brass or expression than a tinkling cymbal. Ideas come by thinking; thinking comes by the training of the mind; and the training of the mind is the university's specialty. True, there are men of great readiness in ideas who have never had the benefit of this specialty...