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...scholastic courses, those given by Dr. Davison and Mr. Woodworth, are especially valuable. Chief among these is Music 3a, The History of Choral Music. In this course the lectures are only a framework; the body of the work is a series of reports based on the examination of scores. The examinations are different from all others in the Department, stressing the "case method," in which the student makes out cases to identify excerpts from works of the composers and periods studied. This course is especially valuable, not only for the subject matter, but for the development of the scholastic point...
...excitement at the Fine Arts Theatre, to her companion. "Why, it is a bed, and they're in it! These foreigners. I always said to my husband, when we saw those men on the streets of Paris . . ." Nor, perhaps, can one blame the old lady, for the complicated framework of "Wien, du Stadt der Lieder" is such that she could hardly be expected to follow the intricate love problems of Steffi, a Viennese shopgirl, who is almost cast into the willing arms of the almost rich tenor butcher only to be rescued for her unemployed musician by the discovery that...
...Business School has seen its system of instruction overcome a dead weight of tradition and distrust. It is today generally followed by business schools everywhere. The statistical service which it supplied to students of economics, and its regular reports on business conditions, long enjoyed a unique popularity. Within the framework of our business civilization, it has probably functioned almost perfectly...
Usually accurate, well-informed, TIME erred July 11, p. 28, under the heading Aeronautics. Says TIME: ''No one last week could read the Los Angeles' future. . . . Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Alacon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock in Akron, Ohio, while a delegation from Macon, Ga., waved flags. . . ." As a member of the Macon delegation in Akron on this occasion, I can say without reservation that no flags were waved. Only a ribbon inscribed, modestly enough, "MACON. In The Heart Of Georgia...
...terrible headache Scot MacDonald was unable to write or dictate his final speech as Chairman of the Lausanne Conference. At the last moment he rose from bed, signed for Great Britain and declared ex tempore, "Our agreements must have response elsewhere. [They] must be placed within a world framework...