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...Haven last week members of the college community and alumni listened skeptically to President James Rowland Angell's long promised remarks on the House Plan (TIME, Feb. 24). Suddenly the audience burst into loud cheering. President Angell had announced that Associate Professor Dudley French (Yale 1910) would not resign from the English faculty, as had been previously stated (TIME, Dec. 30), but would take charge of the first unit of the quadrangle system. some three or four years hence. Two situations which engendered dispute at Yale this year are: 1) the House Plan, and 2) the resignation of popular...
Dodging the few remaining ice cakes left by the recent burst of warm spring weather, 18 upperclass crews covered the stretch between Newell Boathouse and the upper end of the one half mile straight stretch on the Charles yesterday afternoon in the first outdoor practice of the 1930 season. The crews will abandon the three practice periods a week schedule for daily rowing as long as the river remains open...
...Montes Claros in the state of Minas Geraes, Vice President Fernando Mello Vianna and a party of Conservative orators arrived to campaign for the coming Presidential elections (March I). Minas Geraes is a Democrat stronghold; the Conservative campaigners were greeted with a burst of gunfire from Democrat sympathizers. Five people were killed, 16 wounded, and Vice President Mello Vianna received three bullets in his neck. Wired Brazilian Minister of Justice Vianna do Castello: VIOLENCE WHICH HAS BEEN RIFE IN THE STATE OF MINAS GERAES SINCE LAST OCTOBER HAS NOW CULMINATED IN A SERIOUS POLITICAL INCIDENT. I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION...
Applause such as is rarely heard burst out in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week. The occasion was a Boston Symphony concert. The heroes: Russian Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky and Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev who appeared also as pianist. No stranger in U. S. music halls is Composer Prokofiev. He used to be railed at as the enfant terrible among moderns, a name belied by his pleasant. Pucklike presence. But since others have outdone him in the making of queer, dissonant patterns, the public has found him less disturbing, more to be accepted. Prokofiev too has changed in the past...
...pleases but in trying to make others do what one pleases. Be that as it may, this genial writer can't help offering suggestions for others to read anymore than he can refrain from bouncing in delightedly on some unsuspecting lecture which offers the unusual. Besides he hasn't burst into print for a long time and probably won't again until this serious business of guiding his youthful adherents into entertaining classrooms begins again...