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Captain Batchelder, of the unconquered CRIMSON aggregation, announced last night that his seven had been in strict training for the past week at a Boston restaurant, every man denying himself even water during the arduous training season...
...emotional effect." We are not sure what he means by this, but take it that he has reference to passages containing complex harmonies and unusual or complicated progressions. But therein, as the composer knows, the separate chords may not be dissonances; on the contrary, they must be capable of strict analysis, otherwise they cease to be music. Neither must progressions by too ambiguous on penalty of the effect being flat and dull. Mr. Spelman's notions of dissonance need revision, but it is not his fault: our whole musical nomenclature needs it before one may be sure what another...
Epstein presented a remarkably clear argument, basing it upon three points: first, that private ownership of the railroads has been wholly unsuccessful; second, that a strict government supervision, while an improvement over the former plan, has not been conducive to the highest degree of efficiency; and finally, that the eventual successful operation of the roads lies in a policy of unlimited governmental control. The failure of the private system was due to the desire of the owners to realize the greatest possible amount of money out of the railroads at the expense of equipment, service, and general progress. That close...
...Henin took a middle ground, declaring that while private ownership has been a dismal failure, public ownership seems no better. The solution lies in adopting neither, but in enforcing a regime of private ownership under strict governmental regulation...
...thousands of students; its change from an institution dominated by church and state to one governed and supported largely by its own graduates; its expansion from one to a score of departments; the steady widening of the field from which it draws its students; its renunciation of a strict classical and theological training for a broad cultural education and the elective system; its gradual relaxation of Puritanical discipline; and its constant progress to a wider sphere of influence--how all this happened every Harvard man should know...