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...procession was headed by the Duke of York and the occasion was the installation of the Unknown Soldier as Grand Master of the Order. The ceremony was highly impressive. On entering the Abbey the Order was met by the clergy and choir, all dressed in medieval habits, and they and some of the Order proceeded up che main aisle to the high altar where the Pro-Grand Master received an offering of gold from the Almoner and presented it to the Dean, who dedicated it. Then sounded a joyous fanfare of trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound...
...close, Mr. Monteux played Ravel's "Choreographic Poem" the Waltz, with an understanding and sympathy which wholly redeemed the less interesting parts of the concert. Ravel is beyond description--certainly the master-satirist of music. Humor, subtlety, musical virtuosity; all are his. Listening, the Boston audience ponders solemnly, frowning on those who see the point...
...Century, etc., etc. The latest collection of them was made this Autumn under the title Cross-Sections, Julian Street was born in Chicago, but he is thoroughly metropolitan in manner and instinct. He is quiet, slow moving, tall, with dark, graying hair and a slow, almost drawling voice. His master is obviously Booth Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same -both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from...
According to the New York World, however, there must exist a great multitude of Babbitts, for it says editorially that all who attended the great beauty contest last week at Madison Square Garden were such. Even the master mind of the carnival was a Babbitt, a manufacturer of plastic mud for the complexion. And it goes without saying that Mr. Valentino, who bestowed the golden apple upon the fairest, was under his role of Paris only a Babbitt. What the World failed to note was that the sun did not rise out of the west, nor the moon revolve...
...series of six organ recitals given in Appleton Chapel under the direction of Professor A. T. Davison '06 of the department of music will take place this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The program will be rendered by Professor Davison, who is the University Organist and Choir Master, assisted by Miss Frances Morgan, violinist...