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...success with serenades was so embarrassing that his parents, people of quality, decided that it would perhaps be more becoming if he turned professional. In 1911, at the age of 28, he made his debut in the Costanzi Theatre at Rome, created a sensation which won him a three-year contract with La Scala. Now the royal families of Italy and Spain attend his concerts. When asked by pressmen why he had never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said he: "Because they will not pay my price.* I can sing well. I know...
...study of Law; outside of the classroom and the library there is no common interest to bind the students together. Nearly all colleges place their stamp upon their graduates; the men come here already hardened to the mould, and there is no change in them through the three-year course except that wrought by nature...
...assume a young man comes to Oxford to "read" for honours in Modern History. Once admitted to the university, he faces two sets of examinations, one about half-way through his three-year course, the other at the end. The first set, or "History Previous" is comparatively easy, and serves to keep the student in the proper path and to hold him up to his modern language requirement. The final examinations, most of three hours, on English political history, English constitutional history, a period of general history since 285, political science, economic history, and a minute special field, such...
...Medical School, the three-year appointments as assistant professors include promotions of three men who have been until now faculty instructors. The three are Cyrus C. Sturgis, named Assistant Professor of Medicine; Frederick C. Irving '06, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics; and Calvin B. Faunce Jr., Assistant Professor of Otology...
Progress at all three buildings will be only slightly impeded for the present, for by good fortune most of the plumbing has been put in, and the rest will be delayed. The carpenters have signed a three-year contract and will not strike unless there are unforeseen developments. The lathers have not yet worked on the buildings and will not be needed for some time...