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...necessity of passing ' breath "evenly through some 16 feet of tubing, a matter of sustaining tone, a more fundamental problem is that of even starting the designated tone owing to the multiplicity of overtones which may accidentally take precedence. Turning to the two woodwind musicians to whom you refer as "oboe players," actually only one ot them is playing the oboe. The other is playing the English horn, readily distinguished from the oboe by the metal pipe extension of the reed mouthpiece and the wider spacing of keys. Incidentally this musician gives a fair illustration of the modern method...
...refer here to the unfortunate hesitancy and suspicion with which student organizations at Harvard have reacted to the invitation of the Continuations Committee of the Armistice Day Anti-War Conference requesting participation in a sane review of the peace problem. But the CRIMSON's success in creating the erroneous impression that Anti-War Strike, N.S.L. and Communism are synonymous terms has prevented wide and whole-hearted support of a move which it has itself editorially supported namely, the promotion of peace. Until last year's affair can be forgotten, or unless the CRIMSON takes steps to rectify its inadvertancy, only...
...very foundations of Harvard life. The commuter problem now appears trivial compared to this new and horrid situation that the Vagabond has unearthed right under our very noses, nay, in a place that one is wont to associate with all that is highest and finest in the University. We refer, gentlemen, (Stand back, sirl) to Widener Library...
...refer directly to the move for complete publicity of the international arms trade embodied in the United States Resolution before the League of Nations, which all the other powers are fondling with as much affection as if they had stepped into bed with an aroused porcupine. To be sure, investigate the arms and munitions boys; the industry appears to have more than its share of smut. Control their machinations, muzzle the Zarahoffs...
Prospective play-writers should not be frightened away by the charge that there is no opportunity for this branch of composition at Harvard. I need only refer them to English 22, for one, in which Professor Hersey not only encourages the writing of plays, but gives several lectures on the subject. During my stay in that course he devoted at least six lectures to a study of the play "Sadie Thompson," both on the legitimate stage and in the cinema, and by reading the Somerset Maugham story, showed how the dramatist had adapted his material. He also made a careful...