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...were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...
...officers of the Sophomore Class have decided not to hold the customary smoker for their class this spring. In the past, other classes have found these affairs dull and wholly valueless as far as their supposed purpose of promoting class spirit goes. The Junior Prom met a similar fate, and few regretted the lost ball and brawl. These vanishing traditions of a Harvard that was once united and compact will not be missed. New traditions, more natural and more spontaneous, will no doubt spring from the smaller and more easily handled units of the House Plan...
Inspired by the ten commandments of Tia Juana and the sermon on Monte Carlo the sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...
Born in Holland in 1802 of French parents, Constantin Guys began his career as an illustrator about the time that the fateful Hernani was produced. As Parisian as Baudelaire in his tastes, it was his fate to spend much of his active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...
...Another Cotton statement: the fate of the London Conference will be settled this week...