Word: curtailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depressing case of their inability to adapt themselves to the year 1959. American-made equipment for teaching science has long been almost unbelievably expensive. Schools which are neither rich, nor equipped with ingenious teachers who can hand-build teaching equipment, are frequently forced by the costs to curtail some of their science teaching, or to do it with inadequate demonstrations...
...Band has been forced to curtail considerably its planned Southern tour because of financial reasons. The 55-man group will play only at the Harvard Club of New Jersey, in Newark, Monday night, March 30, and at the Washington, D.C., Club the following night...
Functioning both as stage director and conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
...accept my profound thanks for including a program for the Penn-Harvard game in your issue of last Saturday. It is gratifying to know that, since the H.S.A. is helping undergraduates to earn their way through Harvard by raising the price of programs, someone is helping other undergraduates to curtail their expenses by providing free programs. John H. Frohlicher...
Naturally, we also own a good deal of printed material including a great many marches and concert music. Unfortunately, a good percentage of this was ruined also. The above does not mean that we shall curtail our effort in the slightest this season. We shall be at all the ballgames and shall give our Dartmouth concert, which we hope will be better than ever, and we have some surprises in store...