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...billed solemnly as a recital of the true and indigenous American music, from which all native American music presumably is to spring. As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes. However, Whiteman made a speech which rang straight from his heart. He mourned and denounced the contempt with which jazz is held by the practitioners and fanciers of high-brow music, and pronounced jazz to be serious art, "the only true American musical art." Many exponents of jazz put on a varnish of this same opinion, but Whiteman expressed...
...their eyes and sometimes in their skin, photosensitive substances which are chemically altered by light. The products formed influence the contraction of the muscles. If the animal is illuminated on one side only, it is compelled to turn in the direction of the light and move forward in a straight line. Thus the marine worm is "positively heliotropic" (to sun-light). These reactions are quantitatively graded to the strength and distance of the light...
Fresh from its 27-0 triumph over Norwich last week, the Crimson wrestling team will meet the M. I. T. matmen at 8 o'clock tonight in Hemenway gymnasium. A 26-3 defeat for the visitors by Yale last month gives the University hope for its third straight victory...
Myrtie is an addition to the sob drama. Author Goodhue seeks to arouse your pity for a bad girl, bent on going wrong for the sake of the silk stockings she'll get. Then she meets a priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...
Captain Dixon had little trouble in trouncing in straight games A. G. Macllwaine, No. 1 man for the New Yorkers and considered one of the best players in the metropolitan district. In spite of the two games taken by their opponents, the other four Harvard men won their matches handily and by decisive scores...