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With the recently announced election of Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, to the Institut de France, Harvard now has four members in this distinguished French academic society. Rand and Charles R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Emeritus, are now colleagues in the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres of the Institut; and Professors George D. Birkhoff '05, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Philippe-Jules-Fern-and Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature, are members of other academies of the Institut...
...news coverage and the number of its special correspondents, Chicago's Daily News printed last week much matter which the Chinese Government's censors had slashed out of its Shanghai correspondents' dispatches during the Japanese advance to capture Nanking, the former Chinese capital (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). Examples of what was slashed...
...Leftist Valencia and only 75 miles from the Mediterranean, though those 75 miles include territory as difficult as any that a modern army could be asked to cross. Leftist General Rojo's capture of all but a few buildings in the centre of Teruel (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante), and the driving of his lines some six miles beyond the city, meant no more than the nipping of that fingernail. In another sense, it was a major victory of the war, for it took the initiative away from General Franco just as he was about to launch his long...
...noted French musician of his generation. It was not as the concocter of that booming bit of cafe music that Ravel drew this world-wide homage, but as the composer of two operas, numerous songs and chamber music works, and of a half-dozen suites and tone poems (Daphnis et Chloe, La Valse, Rhapsodic Espagnole, Alborada del Gracioso, Ma Mere I 'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin, et al.) which have long ornamented the symphonic programs of three continents. A miraculous orchestrator and an adept at poetic description in sound, fastidious, precise-minded Ravel had, following the death of Claude...
...Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini) from absolute mediocrity; dependable molasses-voiced Contralto Bruna Castagna (always affectionately regarded by Manhattan operagoers who knew her when she sang at the lowly Hippodrome) saved at least three operas (Samson et Dalila, II Trovatore, Norma) from a similar fate...