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...consummate variety of the program might in itself be a worthy object of study and admiration to those concerned in the make-up of numbers for "high-brow" concerts. The blase critic, weary from countless discussions as to the relative merits of Stravinsky and Schoenberg, of abstract and "program" music, would pass an evening in which he would feel only the highest admiration for the obvious results which careful and prolonged training had brought in the maintenance of high, technical standards, a spontaneous ensemble and a genuine interpretive ability...
...Hara started his speech by commenting on the differences of the Harvard of today and the Harvard of ten years ago. The chief trouble with Harvard at present is, according to Mr. O'Hara, that the students are too "high-brow," or as he later explained, "Harvard is 20 percent American, and 80 percent Transcript...
...more serious consideration than is generally given it. It is difficult for the public to take humorists as seriously as they take themselves; yet we should, undoubtedly, appreciate these three fine writers of graceful lyrics, whose poems, doubtless, will be remembered long after many of our currently vaunted high-brow poets are forgotten...
Many "schools" were represented-symbolists, acmeists, futurists, centrifugalists, imaginists, Moscow Parnassians, poets proletarian, poets peasant, neoromantic, non -classic, constructive, aimless poets, nichevoki poets, poets aloof, high-brow and low-brow and poets independent...
This depends upon how you define religion. If Religion means merely high-brow sermons, beautiful church music, well fed preachers dilating upon conventional subjects and attempting to teach economics to congregations, or attendance at church, we need no more. We have enough. If religion means the life of God in the soul of man (this is the real definition), then this is the crying need of America today. But the average preacher is helpless to satisfy...