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HULSE Assistant Manager-RAYMOND WACHTER Department Managers Advertising...............Alex K. Scherer Advertising ..............A. ,James Jorda Advertising............Car- W.- amme Service .... ............ierbert E. Varnue Circulation..............George S. ]radle Accounts .............Lawrence E. Walkle Publications..............Ray M. Hofelic assistants Mary Cae Marion Kerr eanette Dale Lillian Kovinsky ernor Dave Bernard Larson Bessie Egeland jiollister Mabey Sally Faster I A.Newman Anna Goldberg Jack Rose KasperHalverso Carl F. Schemm George Hamilton George Sater jack Horwih Sherwood Upton Dix Hurphrey Marie Wellstead WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929 Night Editor-WALTER WILDS DO YOU HIDE LIQUOR? From Brown university comes the news, and incidentally chagrin that students will be paid $5 a day for obtaining evidence against their fellow students of ownership of prohibited alcoholic beverages. In other words a sneaky, under- handed method of espionage is being subsidized in an effort to make college students stop drink- ing. We should like to point out to the Providence prohibition ad- ministrators that if the past has told us anything about the stub- born drink tradition in American universities, it has almost yelled that students cannot be persuaded into the path of temperance by threats, spite, or third degrees. Liquor has gradually become a sort of tradition in our universi- ties-at least it is a venerable in- stitution more fraught with fun and more reverentially preserved than many a hoary custom such as commencement. Students are bound to resent any blind effort to take this institution from them. In it are bound up their personal rights, their pretentions to manli- ness, their recreation, and their surcease from the sorrows of edu- cation. Physicians can rant about stom- ac4 ulcers, cirrhosis of the liver, and habit formation; whether the individual wants to take a chance (and the successful men who drank hard in college show that the odds are at least even) is a question for the individual. Not until the drunken student offends another has any one in a free country the right to take his liquor from him, and a sober student hiding a boot- leg quart in his bureau drawer is certainly inoffensive. Here is the new Brown system peculiarly vic- ious, for it invades a man's sacred privacy and seeks evidence not of drunkenness but merely of own- ership. The employment of spies to re- port the names of staggering stu- dents is a rather common practice on university campuses; the sec- recy of the spies' names makes the practice contemptible, but it can- not be called vicious. It serves, albeit underhandedly, the desirable end of eliminating that ungentle- manly student who must needsl display his intoxication before the HIGHER STANDARDS In seeking to revise the regula- tions governing the admission ofg candidates to West Point, the au- thorities there have seen the ne- cessity for the elimination of the ' unfit in building men for Uncle' Sam's army. By raising the stand- ards of the academy, West Point is doing practically the same thing that President Little wished to ac- complish through the establish- ment of a University college at Michigan.1 Up till the present, a certificate, from high school or preparatory lschool has been enough to admit a candidate to the military academy, but it was found that under this' system, there were a great per- centage of failures in certain sub- jects due to poor preparation. Con- sequently, these cadets have been a drag on the institution and have retarded the progress of the other students. By reducing the number of failures after admission, the pro- posed plan will tend to do away with much embarrassment. Some individuals are not fitted either by temperament or capacity for the work required by colleges. By recognizing this fact, consider- able saving in time, effort, and money on the part of the pros- pective student as well as the uni- versity can be effected. The reit-- eration of subjects which should have been learned in high school can be eliminated, and the gain in the efficiency of every depart- ment will be more than doubled. Thd new standards set up by West Point and the proposed system of admission by which only the most suitable are accepted deserves the careful consideration of every col- lege in the nation. THE ROAD TO RUIN T Fearing that their college is "on the road toward becoming a rich man's school," students of Dart- mouth college, have protested through their undergraduate pub- lication, the Daily Dartmouth, a rising tuition, and other augment- ed expenses concurrent with edu- cation at the New Hampshire In- stitution. The high cost of college is an 'attempt to produce an aristocracy of brains," the students say. How- ever, it has resulted, they claim, in breeding "an aristocracy based solely on the chance of economic factors," and the college is lean- ing toward "snobbery." Dartmouth's plea for an "aristoc- racy of brains," inaugurated by ' President Hopkins, is well ground- ed. Brain power is but one of many natural resources of the human race. Being the specialized de- veloper of this one factor, colleges should produce a distinct class of intellectual superiority. Dartmouth's problem is not one I of purpose, but one of method. It . is the means of determining the members of the superior brain class, that is the prime question. Wealth as a means of discrimina-. tion has long been considered in- consistent with the purpose of edu- cation. Evidences of this have been plentiful and the Dartmouth icase is further strengthening of the principle. Some higher attribute than the possession of money should be used as the measuring rod for en-i trance to educational institutions. Moral purpose is a more fitting re- quirement. Stock for the nobility of brains, should come from the basic aristocracy of integrity, initiative and industry. This prin- ciple has been strongly advocated by President Little, and has, to a limited degree been applied in de- termining students for the Uni- versity. Dartmouth's trouble in practic- ing its educational policy may be relieved if it would apply moral purpose, and not evidences to with- stand higher rentals, as its ma- triculation prerequisite. But, whatever, may be its experiences with procedural matters, their in- tent to develop an "aristocracy of brain" is worthy of commendation. .P..Df D6{ 3.R YR.lt..D..... 3. 3f eJfl3 fltf_ lfl R.. t.. 333 .P. 3I3*.t.fitI .. ...DSt.3 #EJ* "---"1"2?""-"---- -------__- -"----- -"--------- ---------- _____----------------------------- - Music adDrama' ... ....:....... .................. 3i..auunsu.................. ............... ..... ............. TONIGHT: A presentation of "The Green Goddess" by William Archer, in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, commencing at 8:15, with the curtain at 8:30 o'clock. THE BRAHMS CONCERTO I ANTON RUBINSTEIN A- x 4.T.".T1C~iyZ- .-tri .Lcnwar 4 A- xast1ri"__ly a es tran I . E- _' An Article By Herbert Schwartz This work is a most eloquent re- buttal of the thesis that Brahms An Article By Day les Frantz By the nature of things musical there will always be those whose struggles too much in the act of I names in the history of music sig- composition. It is a truism that art conceals itself and yet therej are times when art is, quite legiti- mately, interested in itself and lays bare its mechanism - which is pretty much the mechanism of theI artist's organization. CrystallizedI nify tragedy. Beethoven, Schu- bert, in a sense Cesar Franck, and the American, Charles Griffes, to call to mind the outstanding ones; and because of the failure of the world to acclaim him as a great dramatic composer, (not even I New York Listed Stocks Private wires to all Markets Conservative margin accounts solicited Telephone 22541 Brown-Cress & Co., Inc. Investment Securities 7th Flor First Nat'l, Bank Bldg. DON'T DELAY LONGER Ordering your CARDS and PERSONAL STATIONERY-Newest styles on display 1111 South University / Block from Campus I RADIO Parts -and Service. FOR ALL MAKES GEO. WEDEMEYER r attitudes are a much more enjoy- recognition as one of the world's Want Ads Pay able means of communication (for the audience), but the tremendous question arises: "Is the creator's experience always adequately con- veyed in such summary terms?" Classicists will say yes, adding that the other elements of an experi- ence are peculiar to the individual and of no universal, that is, ar-I tistic relevance; but somehow the creators themselves seem to beI quite interested in the effort tof crystallize, as a distinct experi- ence in itself; Contrapuntal forms are formalisations of this process: the creation of attitudes from im- pulses. The step from chaos to or- der is too large a part of an art- ist's experience to be dismissed as irrelevant and too universal (at least among artists) to be outlaw- ed as incommunicable. This as- pect of composition becomes in- significant with the more facile thinkers like Handel, Mozart, the early Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. greatest piano virtuosi could com- pensate him for this failure), Rub- instein adds his to the list of these tragic names. Anton Rubinstein was born in I Vichvatinets, in 1829, of Jewish parentage. Though Russian by birth, his pen produced work that have about them an air chiefly cosmopolitan, rather than the characteristic national flavor one expects of the Russian school and which one finds in most of its exemplars. Rubinstein was a prolific com- poser. From his pen came 5 piano concertos, 6 symphonies, 9 operas, and 5 or 6 oratorios or biblical operas, besides numerous other works for voice, orchestra, solo- in- struments and ensembles. It was his pathetic misfortune to watch his own creations in the field of , piano literature, chamber music and the opera, eclipsed by the re- rlfc ffamtiro ~cs r~vo 221 E. 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Where than the works of the American, he is less successful he is human- the music of Rubinstein possesses ly more understandable, and in the { undoubted merit, charm and end his efficiency (if we may refer beauty, but lacks excellence of de- to an artist as an entity) is the tail and appreciable depth in the greater since a man's clumsiness sense that one speaks of profundity evokes our sympathies even as we i music. At least the worth of J disapprove of it. But here one his own compositions cannot be would have to introduce definitions w compared to that evidenced in the and purposes which are always works of his many superiors. At argumentative. its best, Rubinstein's music is char- The fact is that Brahms can acterized by a certain virile tone write in both idioms-and he has coloring, a splashy sort of brilli- chosen the simpler one for this ance, frequent bits of beautiful and concerto. There is little cryptic b pure lyric melody, and to quote introversion, and twisting and Combarieu's summarization: "It is turning of themes to wring out new characterized by a brilliant eclec- material; there is little comment ticism in which one may discover of the composer on his own experi- the influence of Schumann and ence. In this composition Brahms Mendelssohn, of Berlioz and Liszt; has abandoned himself to youthful yet which lacks the imaginative straightforwardness and simplic- ardor, the intensity of sentiment, ity and yet, without any awkward in a word, the power of personality, insistence on his reflection, there which constitutes Romanticism." It is the melancholy glow, beneath is interesting to quote Rubinstein's the virtuoso's ardor, of one who own bitter summary of himself: "I has looked upon the world and appear quite illogical to myself. As himself, and who has been sorely regards life I am a republican and puzzled by both. The guess is that a radical, while in art I am a con- Brahms here has empathetically servative and a despot.... The Jews reverted to the virtuosity of his regard me as a Christian; the youth-but with the sad submis- Christians look on me as a Jew. sion of a frustrated intellect. For the Russians I am a German; One never feels (as one must for the Germans, a Russian. The confess to in the symphonies and classicists think me a futurist, and later piano works) that too many the futurists, a reactionary. My things are going on at the same own conclusion is that I am neith- time. The orchestration is remark- er fish, flesh, nor good red herring ably transparent for Brahms and -a pitiful individual." very often it pretends to no more The Concerto than subtle background for the The first movement-D minor, solo. 2-2 time, Moderto-propounds the Those who love Brahms for his principal theme, followed by fits lugubrious richness may be dis- trestatement by the solo instrument. appointed in this work; those who Alterations of orchestra and piano, require primarily fluency of ex- frequently using new material, pression will prefer it to much that lead to the second subject, F. maj- is more pretentious. Probably the or. In the "development" and "re- latter are right. 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In the "recapitulation" and the world likes to be con- second subject appears in B. rijuararl rtrif uiie 'aucpeLLS 1jUt . dInni- JL mJ.i t fha nnUUU n is the and new 1 the fiat 11 MAY FESTIVAL TICKETS A Limited Number of Season Tickets ($6.00, $7.00, $8.OO), and tickets for individual concerts ($1.50, $2.50) are still available AT THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Beginning Wednesday Noon TICKET SALE WILL CONTINUE AT HILL AUDITORIUM Editorial Comment CASH FINES , (The Ohio State Lantern) Another blow may soon be dealt the student's purse, already report- ed to be in an unhealthy condition. The Student Court may decide to assess cash fines. Court officials look to cash fines as a solution to their troubles. They have only two types of sen- tences. For a grave offense they may suspend a student from school. For a less serious violation, they, only issue a warning. This is their difficulty; some quered. But one suspects that Brahms himself had more respect for the meek, perplexed human be- ing who was more nearly conquer- ed than conqueror. A concerto is written, after all, chiefly for the performer and Brahms could never subscribe completely to the domi- nance of the virtuoso. But it may be that Brahms had elsewhere lost too much of the virtuoso's spirit. It would be impossible for him to! lose the manner of his musical thinking even in a concerto. Thus the happenings in the orchestra, while at times subsidiary to the solo, are, on the whole, extreme- ly important. The introduction of the first theme by the oboe in thej maoir, ar n n e coaa, as is us- ual in compositions in which tle possibilities of an instrument are stressed, we find dazzling passage work for the piano, with contrib- utary phrases by the orchestra. In the second movement--F major, 3-4 time, Moderato assai- the principal subject is introduced after twelve measures of intro- ductory material, the first eight for the orchestra. The progress of this movement is so clear and self-ex- planatory that no words of analysis can be of assistance. The third movement is indicat- ed "Allegro." There are three themes, and a short orchestra in- troduction which reappears I I III I Ili I II