Word: giving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cities and towns--that's where Harvard will go. Fathers will greet sons; there will be musings and laughter: "So you're in your Junior year! Well, it won't be long now." Church services, Christmas trees, and parties will crowd the days. Parents will hunger for talk, and give advice. Harvard will be at home, in a thousand places at once. Some students will lecture their bewildered families on the war, on politics, or on religion; brothers and sisters will laugh at their seriousness. Others will waste their substance in gaiety, while doting parents shake their heads but shrug...
...centre aisle of a theatre to conduct a synthetic Victor Herbert operetta. When he turns to make his bow, the audience sees that he is just able, amiable Walter Connolly dressed up to look like the composer. But few people who go to see The Great Victor Herbert will give a tenor's whoop what Victor Herbert looked like. They will want to (and will) hear Allan Jones and Mary Martin sing Victor Herbert's lilting tunes with freshness and charm...
...carriage, at dinner table, in a Fifth Avenue mansion shaded by a big eucalyptus tree. They run through eight songs in a brief bicycle ride among the mountains of Central Park. Since Paramount owns the rights to individual songs only, producers had to create phony scenes to give the effect of Herbert operettas. Victor Herbert devotees may be surprised, too, to hear words sung to such instrumental pieces as Al Fresco, Punchinello, Yesterthoughts...
...well as preacher and pastor. But some experience of human life in extreme distress is valuable during years of preparation, and we are glad to have our men get glimpses into these worlds which they will constantly met, even though they must admit that at the best they can give only a laymen's help...
John M. London '41 undergraduate chairman, summed up the objective of the conference as being "to give every man who wants to have an integrated, well-rounded concept of the world an opportunity to discuss the very vital subject of propaganda from as many viewpoints as possible...