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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1914
Page
5
The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave a public rehearsal in Symphony Hall featuring Schumann’s Symphony in B flat known as the Spring symphony, d'Indy’s A Summer Day on the Mountains, and Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Spanish Caprice, performed for a second time.
The critic lauds Schumann’s symphony for youthful color and exposes Dr. Mack’s strong orchestration while faulting Muck’s slow tempi and overelaboration. d’Indy’s mountain symphony is praised for sincerity and color though its moments reveal occasional stiffness. Rimsky Korsakov’s Spanish Rhapsody is described as an intoxicating riot of rhythm and color.
Mayor Curley yesterday dined with the John Adams Chapter of the D A R and praised President Wilsons Mexican policy. Governor Walsh, paying tribute to the chapter, spoke of the role such groups play in keeping the memory of the American Revolution alive. The luncheon at Copley Plaza Hotel included Mrs Curley. Walsh, though a guest, went unrecognized in the lobby.
Beverly March 27 Roger Lee two year old son of Fred Lee followed his mother from a Crosby block flat on the fourth story platform and tumbled nearly four stories. He landed on an ash pile softened by warm weather and escaped with only a shaking up after a physician was summoned.
Harvard defeated Princeton at Sanders Theatre last night in a woman suffrage debate, with Harvard on the negative side and Princeton on the affirmative. It was the northern leg of a triangular series with Yale and Princeton, presided by Prof. L E Warren. Judges were W S Badger and Samuel W McCall. Yale beat Harvard at New Haven defending the negative, while Princeton beat Yale at Princeton defending the negative.
A blaze in the office of Headmaster Pennypacker at Mechanic Arts High School in Back Bay was discovered late last night. The desk and floor suffered fire damage before prompt alarms halted the spread. Police suspect the waste basket under Pennypacker's desk as the origin but have not determined a cause.
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