Word: baton
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prima donna herself was in a box. Her appearance was made the occasion for one of those curious scenes now inseparable from Mme. Farrar's public visits to her native city. When she entered the box, house and orchestra rose simultaneously and faced her, the conductor waved his baton like an acolyte offering incense, and the band played "My Country Tis of Thee." During the entre-acte, Mme. Farrar sang the national anthem in the presence of the enraptured house. There can be no question that patriotic America is seen at her best on a first night...
When the N. Y. A. C. made the world's record, the men on the team did not carry a baton. Perhaps the University men would have equalled the mark of the N. Y. A. C. if their pace had not been slowed up because they were obliged to pass the baton...
...meet, but the first time the cup had not been offered, and so the University has only one leg on it. Princeton and Dartmouth also each have one leg on the cup. R. M. Cook '17 as the leader of the winning club was presented a baton...
...Soldier Boy" is really a series of sentimental pictures of a most unattractive pre-Raphaelite type, joined together by several strokes of the leader of the orchestra's baton; and a few real bits of music. We are so used to recognizing the unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle...
...held in the quadrangle and common room of Smith Halls this afternoon and evening. Two concerts are to be given, one at 5 o'clock and another at 7.30 o'clock, the three Freshman Dormitory Glee Clubs, Gore, Smith, and Standish, competing in the latter concert. A cup and baton will be presented to the winning leader, who will then lead the three choruses in singing other selections...