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...Alexander's Ragtime Band" with a vigor which brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece. It must have taken a great deal of courage for a singer with a reputation for artistry such as Mme. Gauthier's to attempt songs which have so long been an object of contempt and ridicule among those who profess a knowledge of the art, but she was amply rewarded by an audience which showed by its enthusiastic applause that she had revealed to it a wealth of color and artistic vigor in American jazz. George Gershwin played the accompaniments for this...
...existed in all departments of the government, and burdensome taxes were imposed in order to supply wages for thousands of government employees, whose work was to devise new methods of increasing their personal property. Even the soldier who had faced several years of hell on frozen peaks was the object of ridicule, jeers, and often the victim of brutal assaults. A brother of mine, who was an officer in the Italian army at that time, wrote to me from Milan that to wear a uniform on the streets in the daytime was to invite serious trouble, while a similar...
...announced by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, where the pictures are being studied. Our universe is estimated, at the maximum, to be 350,000 light years* in diameter. N. G. C., 6,822 is a million light years away (six quintillion miles) -the most distant object known. The cluster was first observed by the late Dr. E. E. Barnard, but his tele- scope was too weak to resolve it into stars...
...continued, "appear irresistible to me. The provision that the United States should accept no obligations under the Treaty of Versailles except by Act of Congress is an adequate safeguard to national sovereignty, and the elimination of Articles X and XVI from the Covenant ought to satisfy those who object to any Wilson measure no matter how desirable. This change makes it no longer a Wilson league. If there is to be any organization of nations at all, this one seems to be the best...
...Brine announces that he will hold a competition, open to all Harvard men, in which the object is to guess the total number of square inches of material used in the shirt in its finished form. The man who comes nearest to the size of the colossal chest drapery will receive as a prize three free shirts with collars. Second prize will be two shirts and third prize one shirt...