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...precocious. As the campaign goes on, the accounts of this precocity will be amplified. At any rate he was graduated from Washington and Lee University at the age of 19. Three years later he took his LL.B. at the same place. From 1915 on, he annexed a whole string of LL.D.' here, in England, in Scotland...
Since then, futuristic string-quartet composers have used quarter-tones, and really achieved genuine new effects with them. Expert violinists can manage them, with a little practice (beginners without any practice at all). At last, however, a quarter-tone piano keyboard has been invented, by one Alois Haba, a young Czech pupil of the daring Franz Schreker. His instrument was the chief exhibit at the International Music Festival held in Prague last month...
...Glen Cove, L. I., two Australian Davis Cup players were crushed by second-string Americans in an invitation tournament. Shimizu, Japanese Davis Cup leader, defaulted. Of the Australians, Frederick Kalms went down in the second round before E. F. Chandler of California; Pat O'Hara Wood before S. Howard Voshell, Long Island southpaw, in the finals. Intercollegiate doubles champions Thalheimer and White of Texas wrested the team play from the Australians...
...pardoned him. It is possible that in Heaven, some day, Sasanoff may be welcomed by Benvenuto Cellini. ¶ Farewell calls-farewell for the Summer-were paid to the President by Ambassador Jusserand of France, and Senators McKinley, Spencer, Sterling, Cameron. ¶ The Washington baseball team, returning home with a string of nine straight victories, opened a double-header with Philadelphia before 30,000 fans. A few minutes after the first game began, Mr. Coolidge, with his wife and two sons, entered the Presidential box. It was terribly hot, but the Coolidges stayed to the end, standing in the lucky seventh...
...Literary Digest" for June 14, are those with which ninety-nine per cent of all university men, long wearied with the somewhat captions Jeremiads of an older generation, will enthusiastically agree. In fact a majority of the presidential observations might almost be termed flowery. From the unbroken string of epithets and abuse which was fashionably applied to the youth of the land five years ago in the moral depression following the war, the weather vane of opinion has swung around to a point which almost indicates approaching tirades against the old for not keeping face with the spiritual idealism...