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...Book" would do the trick. Certain graduates have written dismal letters to the "Alumni Bulletin" during the past two or three years, conveying an impression that always until now it has been a major sport for undergraduates to gather in compact groups about a piano of an evening and split the air with "Giniral Grant", but that the Glee Club is spoiling all this by its disconcerting preference for Palestrina. It has been a little hard to answer some of these criticisms. The reply that the so-called college songs have not flourished at Harvard for many a college generation...
...order to obtain nrst-hand information about the management of a big manufacturing plant, the first-year men in the Industrial Management class of the Business School will this afternoon journey to the plant of the General Electric Company at Lynn, where the party will be split into small groups and shown over the whole works by guides from the company...
...heard during my short visit to the United States two years ago came from the mouth of a red-cap in Boston!" says St. John Ervine in a recent article in Vanity Fair; and almost simultaneously appears a letter in the Boston Herald scoring the use of a glaring split infinitive in the correspondence of the Associated Harvard Clubs. A passing observance on the signs of the times, and a joint argument for renewed activity on the part of the purists...
...Bert Haines yesterday afternoon put their upper yearling crews through a series of four races. Owing to the heavy weather prevailing in the basin, it was decided to lay the course over the half-mile stretch near the Stadium, and in conformance with the narrower width the eights were split up in to groups...
...lowered into the cellar and a fresh setting let down from above. This eliminates the difficulties and expense of the scene shifting in a play with many scenes. In addition to this advantage, the hydraulic stage enables the producer to et unusual scenic effects; for the upper stage is split into sections which may be lowered one at a time. The result is that rides or cliffs can be created with very little additional time in scene shifting...