Word: instinctiveness
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...third movements of the Fantastic Symphony of Berlioz; in the graceful rhythm of the Ball and the pastoral idyll of the Meadows. In the latter movement the wood-wind choir did especially good work. But these are the only movements of the Symphony wherein Berlioz displays full poetic instinct. The work as a whole is married by that garish morbid-ness too frequent in his work. Mr. Monteux, however, is extremely successful with such "program music...
...free of charge during the early season football games. No one can reasonably oppose such philanthropy, but there certainly should be a condition or promise that said organizations leave their musical instruments at home. Several times last year and again last Saturday the visiting bands have shown a remarkable instinct for playing at the wrong time. Our own band was delayed several minutes at the end of the first half by an uncalled for demonstration by our guests, and all attempts of the announcer to give scores of other games were met by a deafening outburst from the youthful musicians...
Still there remains a group of men who do not find their needs supplied by these agencies. Perhaps they lack the instinct for pleasure in play, perhaps they do not know how to go about getting into a game, or finding a partner at a convenient time. For them, Hemenway Gymnasium is an adequate reply. They the necessary equipment for any sort of excise may be supplied "free on request", and the assistant in charge, Mr. Fradd, presides as a sort of "genus loci" to advise and encourage all searchers after individual physical diversion...
...worldly significance. Almost all men, and all men of character, believe that there is an intrinsic reason for moral conduct, apart from its material value to the man himself; that self-sacrifice for a worthy object is neither an irrational folly, nor a mere survival of a primitive herd instinct, but the noblest act of the most highly developed creature on the earth. The memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage...
...view of the approval which sustains this liberal policy it is interesting to read that Oxford a few weeks ago expailed a young undergraduate for publishing a Communist paper. Keen noses that scent danger star, as well as the instinct of self preservation, may be back of much of the disapproval with which considerable portions of the British press have greeted this drastic action. But some of the objectors take issue with Oxford on broader grounds the "Spectator". for instance, reminds its readers that true education consists in more than what President Lowell calls the process of being a sponge...