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...comparison with the frequent instrumental concerts which we hear all through the season, choral programs are extremely rare in Cambridge. This week, however, two long concerts of vocal music will be given here. Tomorrow evening the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe and Harvard Orchestras will perform jointly a program made up of accompanied choruses by Bach, Handel, and Dargomyzhski; works by Bach, Purcell and Beethoven for orchestra, and a group of traditional songs for chorus alone...
Collier's last week featured Paul Christman as the Dizzy Dean of football. His Missouri college mates strongly disapprove of the comparison. To point out that he is just a merry, modest young fellow, they tell how, after a Missouri defeat, Big Paul ambled off the field, wagging his head: "Me a football player? I should know better...
These research workers say that the ideal comparison would be to compare the life span of the oarsmen with that of their contemporary fellow students, instead of comparing it with those who would not have the same advantages as to food, air, and exercise as these college oarsmen...
...Except by comparison with other industries the utilities have no reason to be cocky about a 20% sales growth since 1929. Between 1922 and 1929 they grew...
...limits it is extraordinarily warm, full, and actual, and by bulk alone gathers an enormous and serene momentum that ends by making the story seem as real and immediate as air. To the proper reader, Emily Fenwick becomes a useful magic mirror for solace, nostalgia, future-gazing, and self-comparison...