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...crowned his efforts to carry out his belief has, however, stilled all real objection. His belief is that the American people, and more especially college students, prefer great and lasting music to sentimental "goo," if they are given the chance to become acquainted with it. It is the function of the Harvard Glee Club, as indeed of all glee clubs, to give the colleges and the public the opportunity to hear and consequently to appreciate classic choral music. The ideal is a high one, and no wide program of education such as this was ever carried...
Hugh Simpson Gibson, head of the U. S. delegation, instructed practically all his assistants and experts to remain at Geneva during the summer, there to function as members of the various committees and subcommittees. Mr. Gibson himself journeyed to Berne, a scant 75 miles distant. There he will continue as U. S. Minister to Switzerland, will visit Geneva often, keep in close touch with the advancing preparations...
There is a function for every under graduate paper to perform. Underlying the selections set forth for the information, improvement, or amusement of its readers, there is a half-conscious realization of a policy to be held to with more or less of consistency. The current Lampoon contains one contribution which fulfills this requirement of a purpose admirably. This is Lampy's conception of the proposed Memorial Chapel, for besides being an amusing caricature of the contemplated steeple, it manages to show up in high relief the absurdities of the design as reproduced in the CRIMSON last week. The editors...
...Educators generally agree that military drill in schools performs no really useful function. Compulsory military training in colleges is based partly...
...what Sultan does "Mokri the Blind" function...