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...program will include an overture to the "Ode for St. Cecilia's Day" by Handel, arranged for strings and oboe; dances from Bach's "Suite in B Minor", arranged for strings and flute, a suite of dances of Milhaud: variations for string orchestra by Byrd: and three movements from "Symphony 2 in D" by Haydn...
Cadet Murrell, whose steady line-crashing last fall was an effective complement of Cagle's flashy runs, will try grips in the 175-pound class with C. D. Newhart '31, substitute tackle on the 1929 University eleven; and in the unlimited class, Parham, second string Army tackle, will engage Captain Nathaniel Warner '31, center on the second University football squad. Both men now weigh about 190 pounds, and an interesting encounter is expected...
Back in Kansas, he was given so much publicity for having been a member of London's party that he found it easy to raise capital. He started a string of cinema theatres, married Osa Leighty of Chanute, lectured on South Sea life, edited cinema newsreels, then began explorations, taking pictures. When photographing dangerous animals, Mrs. Johnson, an expert shot, stands guard beside him. Once they spent 14 months cruising in a 30-ft. ketch with an engine so faulty that no one could sleep below on account of the fumes. Lashed to the hatch, they slept on deck through...
Sense-training is gained through auto-education. Similar methods are applied to the development of the more delicate senses. A child is given two crude, one-string fiddles, one with frets, one without. By comparing noises made on both, he can soon fit in the missing frets, play the second fiddle. Children who can read are encouraged to act each sentence out in dumb show. The system tries to make all of a pupil's acts coordinate with all his senses. Through ideological gymnastics, an intellect is developed by the exercise of attention, comparison, judgment...
...hair (this was written last year), but a long line. They have an intimate acquaintance with a cigarette, have heard of a pocket flask, and choose their courses according to the unmarried status of the professors. They show a fighting Irish spirit in maintaining two or three or four strings to every bow. (He means four beaux to every string). They are not bad company...