Word: baton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William B. Tabler '36, the first Freshman drum-major the organization has ever had, will again twirl the baton...
William B. Tabler '36, last year's high-stepping drum major will continue to twirl the baton this fall...
Chief stumbling-block so far has been Medicine's failure to transmit encephalitis among experimental monkeys, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Last week Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital cautiously suggested that man alone may be susceptible to epidemic encephalitis. In Baton Rouge, La., Herbert Brown, tuberculous ex-soldier, promptly offered himself as a human subject. Said he: "I cannot hope to be an old man. I cannot work and would like to do something useful for the world before...
...concert in Lewisohn Stadium. Eagerly he agreed, for there is one musician in the world whom he idolizes: Arturo Toscanini. An audience that filled all but the extreme end seats turned out to see what this black-haired, electric little maestro of the piano bench could do with a baton in his hand...
...distinguished for a fluent, unhesitating technique. Conducting, he defended himself by a slower tempo, was deliberate in his presenting of the Wagner numbers, as though coaxing the orchestra. His swifter style returned when he played and conducted the Concerto. Alternately he rippled off a solo passage, waved the baton, bobbed his head at the orchestra, beat time with a momentarily free hand. The sympathetic orchestra caught his swift mood, faithfully followed him then and later, through the formidable stretches of the Eroica. Happily convinced, the audience broke in with premature applause even more frequently than usual, twice rose...