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...Brunnhilde is one of my favorites," said Miss Van Gordon. "For me there are a beauty and depth to the Wagner operas which are seldom touched and never sustained by the composers from other countries. I am myself an American and I dislike the bigotry which would classify music and art by nationalities, but it seems to me that some of the German musicians have more sincerity of feeling and less regard for superficialities than the French and Italians...
...program of self-analysis for the institution to follow and evolved a ten-year plan of popular reforms. Alumni, faculty and undergraduate committees are in action. Last week the undergraduates made public some answers they had given to 88 questions of their own devising. Such performances, wherever conducted, seldom bring anything startling to light. They would never be held if there was any likelihood of a grave discovery. The undergraduate critic has had no working knowledge of any college other than his own (save in exceptional cases like the report of the student committee at Dartmouth [TIME...
...Hunt Club loudly declared that whoever the pedestrian fox hunters were they should be shot with their own rifles. Up to her stepped one Bert Batchelor, doughty wheelwright: "Those poor dogs are ours. . . . We are the Holmwood Hunt. Saving your displeasure, the Surrey Union Hunt has ridden out so seldom of late that the foxes are getting thicker and stealing our poultry and stock. We have a license to kill vermin, and we thought we might as well have a bit of sport while we were about it. . . . So far we've shot eleven foxes. . . ." British correspondents...
...spare time is an absurdity the only logical result of which is its present appearance on January 8. Either an editor who can devote his full time to the work, or a board of several members is necessary. Nor is the publication for profit of a volume whose circulation seldom exceeds one thousand an easy undertaking. Both difficulties suggest the advantages of the earlier non-professional system...
...high cliff overlooking the Caribbean Sea are the ruins of the ancient city of Tuloom. This sky is seldom visited by scientists and it is reported that ruins of still older cities may be found behind...