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...Coconut." The official version of how this debacle came about is almost as grotesque as the comment made upon it by the Berlin Tageblatt: "From the jungles of Brazil a coconut has been hurled half around the world at the Glass House of the League...
...attitude of the Kaiser on the eve of the war is brought out, beyond the possibility of misunderstanding, in a comment he wrote on one of the official dispatches from Russia, which to him sealed the future fate of Germany. He dwells with bitterness on this final triumph of what he considers the machinations of the English diplomatic corps. He also foresees with sadness the years of misery and war, and the final overthrow of Germany. That scarcely sounds to me like the language of a man who has just reached the long awaited hour of glory and conquest...
...Koussevitsky conducted the performance with his usual verve and spirit and when that is said there is really no need for further comment. Mr. Koussevitsky has the faculty, unfortunately too rare, in conductors of getting the utmost out of the score as well as from the musicians under his baton. It has been said that an orchestra is largely the conductor, and this may be taken as a case in point. M. Koussevitsky brought the best out of the singers and players alike in a way worthy of the plaudits which the house showered upon...
When asked to comment upon the work which the Committee has accomplished and upon its conclusions which will be submitted in the report to the Student Council tomorrow, E. C. Aswell '26, Chairman of the Committee, made the following statement...
...American university presidents were quoted in significant comment on education in yesterday's papers. Mr. Frank of the University of Wisconsin offered the interesting criticism that American university lag behind all the rest of the national educational structure and that the reason thereof is the pernicious influence of the elective system. Mr. Angell of Yale declared in Chicago that important changes in undergraduate fashions have taken place and that "it is now good form to study...