Show s— i STUDENT LIFE conventional vc are impressed at once by the swift sure majesty with which the action moves to its definite climax in that terrible last scene where Fanstus sits face to face with eternal damWe arc prepared for his nation last wild words when they come but still they burn their way into our brains with a vividness that will not be forgotten “O God! If thou wilt not have mercy on my sodes as largely soul Vet for Christ's sake whose blood hath ransomed me Impose son'ie end to my incessant pain Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years — A thousand thousand and — at last — be saved !” “Bombast!” do von sav? Yes but the times demanded that and the genius was the man who could cater to this taste and yet make the bombast really say something Extravagance is frequently manifest in emotion and expression but it is the natural outburst of youthful exuberance in a man who thought things and had a message for the world Strangely enough there is no more fitting epitaph for Marlowe brought to an untimely grave than the first lines of the epilogue in Doctor Faustus and with these lines we leave him y “Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo’s Department of Music FACULTY George Washington Thatcher di rector Harmony and composition Voice Violoncello Conductor of Choir Orchestra and Band New England Conservatory of Music student under Heinrich Meyn Agusto Rotoli Edna Hall Leo Schultz and Dr Percy Goetschius Nettie Thatcher Sloan Piano and Voice National Conservatory of Music student under Rafael Jossefy and M Berge lone Mayer Piano and Organ Graduate East Mississippi Female College student under Compton and Horridge Violin Wilhelm Fogelberg Graduate Lund Conservatory Sweden student under Stellar Fenac-tu- n and Signor Sabatti was teacher of Sarasate Annie Ver-land- er Joseph A Smith Jr Cornet and Cornetist Instruments Band Thatcher Orchestra Louie Eugenie Linnartz Mandolin and Guitar Harlem Academy |