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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular...
...failed to respond. No effort is to be made to compile the data from this investigation until over 90 per cent of the class have been heard from, since only then will the results have significance. The offending Seniors are therefore urged to return their questionnaires at the earliest opportunity. Last year 92 percent of the questionnaires were returned...
...graver, more classic mood capably interpreted. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe by Philippe Gaubert and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $4)-An excellent performance of the symphonic suite commissioned by the late Serge Diaghilev for his Russian Ballet. The originality and finish which marked even Ravel's earliest work is shown in this month's release of his Menuet Antique (Brunswick). Chamber Music: Ravel's Quartet in F by the Krettly Quartet of Paris (Victor, $5)-The popular French composer caught in a deeply personal mood. Piano...
...Constellation, believed to be the largest ever printed. It measured 50 in. by 35 in., had 13 columns to the page, contained numerous pictures, including one of President Buchanan. The Constellation was published in Manhattan on July 4, 1867 by one George Roberts. Other curios: one of the earliest Socialist journals (1849), printed on dark red paper; an Eskimo newspaper; a copy of the Cologne Volks-zeitung (1889) which presented a brief story of the 100th anniversary of the firm of Solomon Oppenheimer, printed in letters of gold...
...international government is the field covered by Government 18b, which was given last year by Mr. Herter, who was secretary to President Hoover when the latter was doing relief work in Belgium, before and after the war. The course discusses the various attempts at international government from the earliest times, including the schemes of Abbe Pierre and Sully. It concludes with the League of Nations, and the so-called World Court. The League is regarded from a critical point of view, with the action of the United States in not joining being analyzed. An interesting forecast is made...