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...fault of enthusiasm or lack of practice could be heard in the Lowell House Musical Society's performance of "Dido and Aeneas." Aided by a group from Radcliffe the singers entered into the occasion with a zest worthy both of Purcell's score and the lyrics of Nahum Tate, the Poet-Laureate of Restoration England, and they carried off the play with considerable colat. Particularly pleasant to the ear was Miss Nasmyth, the ardent and rejected heroine. Her singing was marked by beauty and clarity of tone, and her reserved expression strengthened the pathos of the third...
When a baseball pitcher pitches a no-hit game, he and his teammates are likely to exchange congratulations. Conversely, when the pitcher is being batted out of the box in a crucial moment, his own infielders are likely to find fault with him and with each other. That something of the latter sort was going on between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his circle of close advisers was suggested last week by two well-informed Washington observers...
...local addresses by which they hope to educate British public opinion in their real points of view. Of Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax said: "I look forward to the time when the country will again enjoy the benefit of his service and guidance in its administration! . . . It is no fault of the League of Nations and still less of His Majesty's Government, but . . . if we were to act as some suggest and try to organize a new pattern of collective security against Germany by the present League powers we should be doing the very thing that would...
...This country has the best, the most extensive, the most widely used and the cheapest telephone service in the world. In spite of this, it would appear that fault has been found with almost everything this company has done throughout its existence. This just does not make sense...
...fault lies more with the Overseers than with members of the committees, for it is too much to ask of man of affairs that he continually make the trip to Cambridge only to find that he has no power and the matters before him are purely departmental. There might well be a compromise between old and new Visitors, for the constant and intelligent auditors are of as much service as the experts consulted annually on matters of policy. The "old-fashioned" visitors would of necessity be residents of Greater Boston, and possibly a Harvard degree somewhere in the past would...