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...family fecundity, denied natural expression in Composer Franz Peter, found its outlet in an extraordinary musical fertility. Schubert, who died at the age of 31, was the most prolific first-rate composer who ever lived. Besides symphonies, choral works, masses, vocal duos, songs with instrumental accompaniment and a huge stack of miscellaneous chamber music, he wrote an average of nearly two songs for every week of his adult life...
...Vagabond was sitting at a small table in a dimly lighted corridor of an out of the way stack of Widener Library. He had been there for several weeks, now, slaving over what he hoped would some day turn into a Senior thesis. He did not particularly care for his thesis, for he had a particular dread of being shut up in a poorly lighted place for hours on end, compelled to pore through book after book, article after article, searching for the headwaters of the fountain of knowledge, a spring which often seemed as elusive as the fountain...
...encouraging to know that the library authorities are investigating undergraduate suggestions for the limitation of book borrowing to two weeks. Widener this year has been buffeted by criticisms of its poor lighting and the exclusiveness of its stack privileges. But while its guardians may find it difficult to correct structural faults---to cast aside inefficient desk lamps and supply the kind of competent over-head lighting system that delights the denizens of Langdell Hall---still the library overlords can eliminate the blight from borrowing...
...morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were slaughtered-18 of them before 23-year-old Paul Anderson's eyes. He took a hotel room in East St. Louis, swashed the blood off his shoes, ferreted out a stack of evidence which helped send 20 roughnecks to prison...
...studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice Abbott. Edward Weston, Paul Strand. Ralph Steiner and Walker Evans. The virtue of photography, Evans recalled, lay in the "difference between a quaint evocation of the past and an open window looking straight down a stack of decades...