Word: extends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manager Johnson's prospectus included no new U. S. opera. But the memory of Merry Mount and In the Pasha's Garden was still too painful to breed many regrets. In no instance did the list of 36 operas extend beyond the conventional repertoire, with Verdi, Wagner and Puccini predominating changes have been in the personnel. The orchestra has been reorganized, with the result that many of the less competent players are absent. In the chorus there are new youthful faces. The stodgy old ballet has been replaced by the new U. S. organization founded two years...
...Society's action in seeking a suitable, workable plan is commendable. When world peace and cooperation is so unquestionably the most suitable background for human happiness, humanitarians throughout the world will support and extend any intelligent plan which works toward this ultimate goal. For the production of a symphony, $5000 is a poor price indeed...
...than is true to the termer. The termer can lose "copper" (prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent in prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more than 30 or 60 days as punishment for rule infractions. Furthermore, because of the very indefiniteness of his imprisonment, he realizes, if he has a modicum of intelligence, that he is the fellow most likely...
...Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to change the closing date of the Christmas vacation for all students under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences so that the recess will extend from Sunday, December 22, to January 5 inclusive instead of ending on January 2, as was originally announced in the official University calendar. The last classes before the Christmas recess will be held on Saturday, December 21, and the first classes after the recess on Monday, January...
...draws young men from every state; its graduate schools enroll an even larger proportion of students from outside New England and train them to engage in professional work throughout the country. Such a university cannot be considered as anything but a national institution; but it is eminently desirable to extend further the national scope of Harvard's work...