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Band Leader Hylton made a speech in each town the Philharmonic visited. Although his ?10,000 might have said, with authority, that he could conduct, he did not do so. Dr. Malcolm Sargent, who did, put a symphony on each program, played also light classics but "no rubbish." Up to last week only one air raid disturbed a concert. The Philharmonic played right through it. The orchestra's nucleus of 65 oldish players was periodically eked out by men on leave from air-raid and home-defense forces, as well as nine enlisted members. But the Philharmonic was worried...
...Major Sargent's men have been handicapped this year by the inclement weather, but lately has shown enough improvement to guarantee a good exhibition...
...annual Handbook of Private Schools, tart old Porter Sargent charged that U. S. universities, led by Harvard, were leading a propaganda parade...
...increase endowments. Harvard and other universities, it is claimed, have enough influence to force the country into war since university influence extends throughout the entire educational system and because words carry much weight. To say the least this logical chain is both oversimplified and dubious in the extreme. Mr. Sargent refutes his conclusion as to who controls Harvard when he talks of his "Alma Mater, the greatest center of learning and enlightenment in the world, and institution so stable that its influence is always greater than a particular set of men who control it at one time." Here...
...Sargent's non-interventionist argument helps balance the pro-Allied utterances of others. Despite its superficial counter-propaganda value, though, his argumentation represents an undesirable type of support for the non-interventionist cause. Interventionists can shoot such logic full of holes and then triumphantly demand our participation in the War. With many sound arguments to back non-intervention it is both unnecessary and dangerous to adopt Mr. Sargent's views...