Word: baton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display is the baton used in directing the club in 1859, one year after the club was founded, and a series of programs dating from 1860. A glass beer mug is shown that was used in the days of the Freshman Glee Club and prewar beer. Other fond memories must be recalled by the carefully pressed rose under which is written "Presented to the secretary of the Harvard Glee Club by the young ladies of Bradford academy...
...Germany, gone to Holland to stay. Conductor Otto Klemperer was attacked and beaten by Nazis. Conductor Fritz Busch (no Jew, but a Socialist) was on the stand ready to conduct in Dresden one night last month when Nazi sympathizers raised such a disturbance that he had to hand his baton over to an assistant...
...Yale's track team: the eastern indoor intercollegiate championship: 32 points to 28 for N. Y. U.; in New York. N. Y. U., needing a second place in the mile relay to win the meet, failed when Sidney Shleffar, lead-off man, dropped his baton, lost 50 yd. going back to retrieve...
Harvard made a great bid for victory in the two-mile relay race in which each man ran 880 yards. In a field of six colleges G. P. Rosen '33 got off to a poor start so that when he handed the baton to J. B. White '34, Harvard's chance looked poor indeed. But White, running with everything he had, did the impossible by passing the whole field and taking a commanding lead...
Hawes, who won the 100-yard dash in the Harvard-Yale meet last year, was the only man to figure in two victories for Cambridge. Sutermeister, a champion pole vaulter at Harvard, received the baton from his former team-mate in the 880-yard relay. Hallowell, last year's American Intercollegiate mile champion, ran on the winning Oxford four mile team and also in the two mile relay...