Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Olson, he of George Olson and His Music, speaks more truth than he imagines when he says that "university courses should be lengthened to eight years for the increasing number of students who want to matriculate in jazz". With no satirical intention he has bequeathed his innocent journalistic palaver with an ironic note. His plea is for more vital trombonists: but he incidentally lays bare the anatomy of jazz...
...avers, seven years of honest toil and study were required before he mastered the art of swinging the drum major's baton then Mr. Olson is justified in demanding eight for the greater complexities of the saxaphone and the other apparatus which compose modern music. But just where in this welter of the arts is there room for what is quaintly termed a liberal education? Neither Mr. Olson nor Mr. Whiteman would tolerate illiterate and uninformed artists in his troupe. And if eight years are necessary for the technical perfection desired in a jazz band, then at least...
...Olson notes, jazz calls for more than a dilatory attention. There is the foundation to be laid--apparently eight long years--and then there is the super-structure which makes the building so attractive. The completed product is the triumph of instinct over intelligence. But a twelve year course, even with a maestra's baton in view, is rather long and arduous. Aborigines accomplished similar ends with much less difficulty...
Spencer and McKinnon, the two Stanford middle distance leaders, have been working out on the Franklin Field track for the last four or five days. Spencer has done the quarter in 50 seconds or less in eight races this spring, one or these performances having been clocked in 47 3-5 and two others in 47 4-5. His times have been consistently under those shown by the best runners of both East and West and with more than a week of practice on the Philadelphia track should be unbeatable in Saturday's battle. In Cooke, of Syracuse, and Ross...
Since that engagement down in the nation's capital, Georgetown has cut a wide swath in collegiate baseball ranks, until its nine ran afoul of Holy Cross at Worcester last Saturday. There Burch was chased from the mound by a salvo of hits that produced eight runs in the fifth, while Davidson of Holy Cross pitched shutout ball throughout the contest, holding his opponents to two hits. The two Georgetown counters that made the final score 9 to 2 came in on errors...