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...still audible to a sensitive ear. Evidently the problem was scientific, beyond a musician's province. Conductor Fiedler might have abandoned the shell and tried electric amplification. But this method, with its rasps and harsh distortions, does not please true musicians. At length he consulted Dr. W. R. Barss, professor of acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Professor Barss proposed a rearrangement of the musicians. In effecting this, each of the 45 players was moved to a position unorthodox in symphonic seating plans. If he had not been adaptable, Conductor Fiedler might then have found himself pointing to the trombones when he wished to stir up the bassoons. But he soon learned where his men were. Best of all, the scheme worked...
...Chairman, R. a. Lutz Eleanor Steadman; S. L. Mahoney, Shirley Polton; A. J. Norton, Dorothy Clapp; F. W. Mansfield Jr., Elsie Draper; R. E. Lutz, Margaret Steadman; J. S. Barss, Helen...
...national fencing championships in New York last week, S. H. Ordway 2L., 1921 team captain and foils champion, and J. K. Watson '23, and C. J. Shearn Jr. '23 of the 1923 team will be prominent contestants in the epee event, which was won last year by J. S. Barss 1G. Boyce, Watson, and Shearn will also take part in the sabre event which was won last year by S. H. Ordway...
...University Fencing Club entered two teams in the Eastern Team Duelling Sword Championship in Boston Saturday night, but failed to gain the championship. Team A, composed of J. S. Barss 1G., C. J. Shearn '23, and J. K. Watson '23 was defeated in the preliminary round by the B. A. A. team, 5-4. Team B, composed of Burke Boyce 1G., W. R. Brewster 1G., and S. H. Ordway Jr. 2L. tied the B. A. A. team while the N. Y. A. C. fencers won from the M. I. T. Army and Navy Club, 6-3. In the first round...