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...extraordinary fact that only one copy of Harvard songs should exist in Harvard itself is explained by the nature of the orchestrations. The songs whose parts are lost are harmonized in keys which make them adaptable to both vocal and instrumental interpretation. The harmony itself, furthermore, is not of a wholly orchestral character: hence the difficulty in replacing the parts. No band scores have been made of some of the selections, and still others are out of print...
...educated classes, has only partially summed up the feeling of the College in this matter. For Harvard has realized, vaguely at first, but more and more through the years that all blind religion and superstitious ceremonialism inevitably must go. So dogmas have slumbered, compulsory chapel has ceased to exist, and Harvard has come to be called the college of the atheist...
...gratitude for his generous gift, the Metropolitan directors should decline his collection. Such an action will set a precedent, or perhaps emphasize a half-forgotten one, that American museums should follow, like the National Gallery in London, only the best interests of art and the public for whom they exist...
Governments are prone to look on books as if they were so much paper and ink, and not as expressions of real civilization. No matter how much the choices of each government may be criticised, then, an interest will be aroused which did not exist before, which may result in a closer examination of governmental censorship and taxation. If the interest in foreign literature grows, it is even possible that Congress may be forced to repeal the infamous "tax on knowledge", which makes foreign books so inordinately expensive in America...
...real dramatic art is curtailed by the silly audience, which goes to laugh and giggle through a tragedy. When earnest efforts meet with gales of laughter, and actor's soul curls up inside him. He learns to speak his lines; not live them. Real beauty on the stage cannot exist without deep, silent appreciation in the audience, which reaches across the foot-lights to the players, helping them on. A rustling, noisy audience, whispering, coming in late, going out early, is a purely American creation and hardly one to boast of. In Europe the drama meets with greater refinement...