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...organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday symphony concerts might be no more pernicious. Few Pittsburghers stopped to consider that a Beethoven symphony or even a Debussy suite might contain more of the stuff of the spirit than a Moody & Sankey hymn...
Another recommendation of the Committee on Instruction, of less importance than the alteration in the language requirements, was also passed by the Faculty, to the effect that the administration of the Language requirements be placed in the hands of a committee of seven members of the Faculty, which shall contain representatives of the Departments of Classics, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Germanic Languages and Literatures...
...April issue of the same magazine will contain a vigorous criticism of a major movement in modern education by Professor George Herbert Palmer '64 under the title of "The Junior College." "Revisiting a River", an essay by Professor Bliss Perry, will appear in the same issue...
...were President, my first official act would be to jail Nicholas Murray Butler. Murray is, of course, just one of those who are preaching sedition with their talk of repealing the 18th Amendment. If I were President, I'd build a brand new Federal penitentiary,* if necessary, to contain all those traitors, and I'd build one large wing just for the Columbia professors. It would have plenty of room for the faculty of Union Theological Seminary...
...Pennsylvania, after four years' labor with the key discovered by a colleague, the late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, announced completion of the world's first translation of Friar Roger's 800-page Opus maius, prodigious cryptogram in monkish dog-Latin that men had thought might contain marvelous secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described one. The formula was enough to discourage the most boldfaced charlatan...