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...older generation has always been busily engaged in telling the younger that it is leading the country to the dogs, and the younger has been as eagerly paying no attention to its elders", said Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, in a recent interview. "That is not by any means a novel remark as anyone will agree", he continued, "but I have noticed that Americans are even more disturbed about the idea of future degeneration than they ought to be. America, from a European stand-point is decidedly not reverting to the primeval state; perhaps some wish that...
...recent CRIMSON interview with Dr. Pratt on the Music of Gershwin would indicate that this modern composer represents the consummate genius of some four hundred years of musical history. Gershwin is described as having placed himself, through the medium of jazz, well on the way to classing with Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Wagner...
...Note: The CRIMSON article referred to in this letter was an interview with Dr. Pratt, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and expressed his views on Gershwin and modern music. The matter is entirely one of personal opinion. In regard to the use of the term "symphony" the CRIMSON was guilty of error...
...Author, Poet Laureate of Nebraska, Author Neihardt knows his Indians well. To the Omahas he is Tae Nuga Zhinga (Little Bull Buffalo); to the Sioux, Igimou Chicakala (Little Cat). He first went to interview Black Elk to get tales of great Chief Crazy Horse; returned for an extended stay to write down the old man's own story. At its conclusion the party went to the top of Harney Peak. There the medicine man delivered his final lamentation for his people; from a droughty sky he called rain to accompany his tears. Black Elk's friend Standing Bear...
...Alger doctrine of ultimate riches for the honest, industrious, poor boy was accepted by youngsters between 7 and 1 1 . On their own experience older moppets vigorously doubted his thesis. To Russell Owen, able newsgatherer of the New York Times, Mrs. Grace H. Bell Fortescue gave her first formal interview since her arrest and indictment in Honolulu for the murder of Joseph Kaha-hawai, charged with attacking her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hedges Massie. Declared Mrs. Fortescue: "... I am glad it is all out in the open. Those days when my daughter's name was suppressed . . . were worse than these...