Word: docs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doc" Davison's anthem, "O Gladsome Light," was written in memory of Gustav Holst, who died last year, and was a personal friend of Dr. Davison, and through him, of the Harvard Glee Club. Somewhat reminiscent of Holst in its harmonic treatment, this anthem, sung by the Glee Club alone, built up an intensity of feeling which blazed out into a magnificent climax in the last verse...
Matching this piece was Walt Whitman's "Dirge for two Veterans" set to music by Holst, conducted by "Doc" with lightness and precision which it is his gift to draw from his singers without any sacrifice of emotional force...
...U.S.S. Macon soared away from her Sunnyvale mooring mast on schedule early one morning last week to take her usual part in fleet maneuvers off the California coast. In command of the Navy's one & only dirigible and her 82 officers & men was Lieut. Commander Herbert Vincent ("Doc") Wiley. That grey-haired 43-year-old skipper, who looks a little like a youngish Herbert Hoover, was not feeling his usual cheery self. His father had died the week before...
Singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," the survivors of the Macon were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...
...Polish father and a Bohemian mother, Stan Kostka followed Coach Clarence W. ("Doc") Spears when he left Minnesota to go to Oregon, played there two years, wanted to follow Spears to Wisconsin but a Big Ten ruling would have prevented his playing football there. As it is, when he steps out on the field against Wisconsin this Saturday it will be the end of his meteoric, first and only season with the Gophers. By another Big Ten ruling he will not be eligible to play in 1935. He will probably join some professional team, as did his hero, Minnesota...