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WHAT PRICE GLORY??The stern saga of wartime told at the French front with the 5th Marines. Perfectly played mockery of man, mud and guns...
...poetry of bell effects has always appealed to composers for the piano. In Borodin's Au Couvent, a bell tolls for 18 measures, silvery, gentle, relentless; Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other...
...made a particularly good position this fall. Geoffrey Platt '27, captain of last year's Fresh man eight, and J. W. Gates '27, who rowed at seat four in the same beat, have held their seats in crew X at seats seven and six respectively in the face of stern opposition. While the present seating order cannot be taken as indicative of the way the crews will row in the spring, the present lineup will undoubtedly serve as a nucleus around which Coach Stevens will build the first eight which rows against Yale in June...
...well the bravest days of the Golden State?the stagecoach, the pony-express, the vigilantes. Lincoln's friend, he heard the Gettysburg address, was with the President on the day of his assassination. He was one of the twelve who organized the Central Pacific Railroad; the last of that stern company of senators who impeached President Andrew Johnson...
...Forgan was widely and affectionately known as "J.B." and "The Old War Horse." His humor was kindly, his sense of justice, honesty and discipline that of a stern Scot. Testimonials from his friends reflected the gratitude Chicago owed him for his services during 30 years of prosperity and panic...