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...decreasing the national debt. Already the field for reducing expenditures is restricted as compared to four years ago. The kind of economies which can now be made is exemplified by three announced last week: 1) Red tape, the official tying material, is to be replaced by white string, because the latter is cheaper; 2) post-office mail bags will henceforth be made of plain gray canvas instead of white canvas with a blue stripe (the saving from this last change will be about $50,000 a year?less than one twenty-third of a cent per capita); 3) the Weather...
...This was the first time I had shaken hands with Mr. Sherman, sage from the Middle West, now editor of Books. His philosophies I bow to. His essays seem to me sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted charm-but it is the charm of a wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams and of violent discussions. Here are the two most interesting personalities in American criticism- opposed to each other...
They played Haydn's Quartet in D minor, Brahms' Quartet in C minor; then, after a rest, they smiled among themselves, stroked the glossy wood of their instruments, began to play a strange composition. It was Ernest Schelling's Divertimento, for string quartet with piano obbligato. (Schelling himself was at the pianoforte, 'for this was the first time that his composition (dedicated to the Flonzaleys) had ever been played. There were critics who instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events...
...with an airtight defense gave the Freshman quintet an overwhelming victory Saturday afternoon over Worcester Academy. The score, 25-14, against the team that had swamped the 1927 five 40-12, was all the more surprising because of the absence of both regular forwards and the first and second string centers...
...spite of this string of injuries, coming one on top of the other in the past week, Coach Drohan was fairly cheerful last night about the prospects of his team today...