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...climactic number, the Fourth Symphony by Brahms, is charged with an emotional power that makes it well-suited for the conclusion of a repertoire that is at the start descriptive and interpretative. The emotional fire of this composition in E minor never Mazes into a lurid display nor dies down to lukewarm embers, but always remains at a steady white heat. The musical skill and energetic orchstration that marks Brahms symphonic work is especially apparent in this Fourth composition...
These requests were successfully coped with until the last few weeks, when the number increased so rapidly that the Lecture Bureau has been temporarily swamped. The student orators who have volunteered for this work have found plenty of opportunity to display their powers before audiences ranging from high school football teams to social meetings in the farm districts...
...past Freshmen were kept waiting until the spring of their first year in Cambridge before being invited to display their literary talents in writing news stories and interviews for the CRIMSON. This year it has been decided to hold two News competitions for first-year men to cut down on the duration of the candidate period, and to take advantage of the quiet seven weeks which comprises the lull between the Yale game and Midyear storms for the first of these...
...there might be some truth in this statement, as shown by the comparatively simple mass-forms of "modern architecture", is not to be denied. However in view of the present day tendency to gaud and show, this is too early a time to even hint at returning sanity. The display complex, engendered to a large degree by the war and the enormous profits it brought with it, is too much with us. flashy things are still far too popular in almost every time in which there can be said to be 'style". Movie palaces of lavishness not excelled...
None would allow himself to survive the disgrace of defeat in the coming action. . . . When battle came, the Admiral stood for a whole day unscathed on the bridge of his flagship, while half the officers who stood with him were hit by fragments of shells. . . . Forced to display a valor equally prodigious, his captains did not fail him. . . . Port Arthur fell.* Colossal Russia reeled. Minute Japan took rank among the mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with...