The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-25
BOSTON DRAWS The VIENNESE'
AND THE PLtZl CIERkS HEtIE
signs or RELIEF.
strain % speaking German on IN Equip
ment of three Numerals Tee Much
for the Hsiei Help Planning DOrInI.
tories Tor Their IIome niN ersIiy

for the Hstei Help Planning DorInI.
| tories Tor Their IIome Z nv ersIiy.
When the lsn musical students pro
fessors and others from the University
OF Vienna who are touring the United
States IN nine days trOoped out 81 the
Plaza yesterday afternoon and started
on final sightseeing tour b.fcre EN-
barking for Boston on tho Yale the room
and information clerks immediately he
/ gan TO untwist their vocabularies and ear
drums. though Bill Norton. the veteran,
says he will hAv. a kink IN las ear untIl
next Fourth Of July.
! For IL has not been a merry lie for
/ the monohngual bunch lehind the desk
/ mp there since the NisEu-ss struck town
the other dav In bTdeT to prepare them
selves some of them started tn take
course in counting under Max Th"mp-
suE. the only pOlyglot outside at the
restaurant but when the class had counted
/ -ein. zwei. drei.- they got no further.
for Norton. who had been on the chariot
for a week said they must make an APP
plication Of the lesson IN the style uf
wackford Sque-rs aud an adjournment
was taken to the club at the Netherlands
Very feW of th. visitors speak any
I
coached upon their numerals The re-
suit was however that they took tn ask
| ing for their keys with mixed numerals.
and IL usually resulted in their having
| t. write the numerals down. Thompson
and the one bellboy who can speak Ger
man were the persons in demand all the
time and IL had got So by yesterday that
when the information desk was APP
,.r,a.,haA n xt ahnaa
insd. yelled Mir Thompson imme-
diatsly the seeker for information opened
! his mouth
some ~ the visitors had habit of
! trotting upstairs and hack again. each
time depositing the key and demanding
IL again and one woman in the party
did thus yesterday morning five times
! by actual count. Now they have chris
! tened each 81 the hundred or 80 keys used
| 10y the visitors -umlauts. and the clerks
say IL - because they themselves have
/ been made dotty over them.
! Prof the Rev DR. Swohoda who il
the rector II the university and IL at
/ the head 81 the party. said yesterday
! they had not hoped 10 make study Of
anything in particular IN such a limited
STAY over here. but tried merely 20 get
a general idea 81 some ~ the cities and
colleges.
with us university lie il = different
thing from what T. is here. he said Here
in city where there - university the
people take "a great interest IN it and IN
the students In Austria the university
usually stands IN The middle Of the city
The students come 10 " merely 90 attend
Lectures and after they are finished they
B 10 hack into the town and the people take
no interest in them
We have heard great deal about IN"
coiega dormitory if" and ar. thinking
oftryInK am experiment u having students
live az tn. university We want Ia get
some idea how the students ar" quaTieged
az the universities here. how they ar"
governed and how the matter Of spOrts
h regulated expect 20 make a special
visit 81 inquiry on This subject next fall
The University OF Vienna has lately
underta ken the idea Of travel expeditions
for its students This year hody 81
thirty professors and about two hundred
and ifty teachers visited Bre-ce and Bos
MIA W. hop~ within year or 50 10 send
a large numh~r 81 them 10 tn" Unite
states
-Th. University Il Vienna - patron red
ny an Increasing number ~ Americans
hu' they are mostly medical students
We have iOD students ~ all Prof Fls"l
berg Of orr faculty who came To America
last year. Delivered an address upon his
return ia which he pral sed the hospitals
and the methods Of operating ~ them
One 81 the VpVy few among the vtsitoTs
who speak English Is Prof Richard Wal
laschek VINO holds tn" char u music IN
the university He has wrltt.h u hook IN
English Published son" seventeen years
ago and which b" did not translate into
hts native tongue until seven wears Later
The hook was the result II FIVE years study
and investigation at the British Museum.
aud u u called Primitive Music la !:
h. discusses the music OF savage races
the origin 81 dancing and the history Of
musical Instruments and the drama The
work has been WIDELY quoted
nave no doubt from the text books
that have seen that the teaching nj music
ia the United States Is on par with that
in any other country. said Prof Wal
lasChek yesterday. and over here YOU 20
into q line Of investigation 81 which Ne
know very little IN Austria ! refer tn
the ethnology OF music Some American
writers along this line are much appre-
ciated abroad especially the late John e.
Fillmore and Miss Alice Fletcher, who has
published a great deal about Indian music
Then there are Franz Boas Of New York
and Prof Thomas 81 Chicago. who writes
not on MUSIC especially but on sociology
1.-THE cakewalk ~ now danced in Austria
and " very popular II ~ based perhaps
} on something abouginally American.
hut ~ ~ 81 modern form Dance MUSIC
is seldom classical Niennese especially
seem to have a talent for bringing emotion
INTO music. Hungarian music II not
much from an artistic standpoint. Tor
Hungarian musicians play naturally by
ear
The greatest talent for music in Austria
lies among the SlavonIc races There
was Anton DVorak. the greatest 81 Sla-
, vonic composers and BrIckner. a German
! Austrian, and Hugo Wolf. the modern
Schubert They were the greatest Aus
TRAN masters 81 modern times. but the
last 81 them has been dead ten years
Now there IL no first rate composer over
there. though the atmosphere ~ thick
| With those who are gacOnd rate