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...provided for the entertainment of the residents. The failure of the Freshman Halls to bring any variation in the monotonous round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing in the old path. Common rooms will never break down social barriers at Harvard: they can, however, furnish in the Houses a place for informal musical entertainment, group meetings, and similar functions which could not and did not exist under the dormitory plan. This was a plan which defied all efforts to secure continuity in any sort...
...folk." Yvette hates her grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens on a gypsy camp, meets a gypsy who is different from all the men she knows. She thinks of him constantly, nearly goes to him, but never does. When a nearby reservoir bursts she is sitting by the river; the gypsy rescues her from the flood and carries her to her room in safety. They keep each other alive through the cold night while half the house is swept away. In the morning, when a rescue party comes...
...most famed modern U. S. painters were both expatriates.* James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was born in Lowell, Mass. He studied unsuccessfully at West Point. A job in Washington, in the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, got him interested in etching. He went to Paris to study art, never returned to the U. S. Before he died he was at the top of his profession...
...many tales told of Whistler's egotism, belligerent wit, publicity-seeking dandyism, Biographer Laver reproduces a ruthless cross-section, adds a few to the collection. Though the expatriate Whistler never wholly succeeded in acclimatizing himself in England, though he always regarded the British as Philistines, called them "the Islanders," Laver gives an instance of how super-English Whistler became on the question of money. He once presented a bill for 2.000 guineas. His client thought the price excessive; the bill was finally settled for £1,000. But to Whistler "the difference between a pound and a guinea...
...again suggested that lonely individuals make the greatest music. The Orchestra played the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms program as if completely bewitched by the slight, grey-haired figure, swaying constantly, sometimes singing along in a thin, croaking voice. The smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist...