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Were an ornithologist suddenly to stumble upon a real live dodo, his pleasure, but not his surprise, might be greater than that of a music-lover of 1913 on finding himself confronted with Mr. Goepp's "Is Wagner a Master?" Mr. Goepp supports his negative answer with all the impressiveness and argumentive force which the printing of the word "no" in italics can confer. However, the right to his own opinion is one far from the present reviewer be the attempt to dissuade Mr. Goepp from his honest conviction that Wagner was "destructive of melody," that his career was "decadent...
...varied offerings of this Wagner number, uneven in value though they be, testify to the energy of the "review" editors, who deserve thanks for having gathered material which shown that after all, the Wagner question is still a live...
...possible to give two tickets to any applicant after every graduate and undergraduate desiring personally to attend has been satisfied, the preference for extra tickets will be given to Seniors who live at a distance and who are not likely to find it possible to attend future races. On each application there is required a certificate that the applicant intends to use the ticket applied for. Any cases where it is found that this is violated tickets for both football games and boat races will be denied in the future. Every means has been exhausted to secure more tickets...
Either proposed arrangement would make it likely that every Harvard man saw two or three races. Now some never see any, and others, who live in New England or New York, see five or six, because they can apply year after year for two tickets and are lucky part of the time...
...this same year, 1879, The Echo, the first college daily, sprang up to live three years of unsuccessful life and be supplanted with hardly a struggle by the Herald in 1882. According to the Advocate it was hard to say what feature of the Echo was most acceptable to its readers, "the vulgarity of the first year, the insipidity of the second, or the negligence of the third...