Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, the junior class had elected Guy C. Holbrook, Jr. '20 of Clifton as president to succeed Wallace Harper '30. G. L. Lewis '30 was chosen vice-president, with J. W. Potter '30 as secretary...
...stage, the individualistic H. D. C. barely managed to present "Fiesta," a play about Mexican peon life, without being banned by the City censors who claimed the show was "crude and immoral." A smash hit at the box office, "Fiesta" included F. K. Smith '30, G. W. Harrington '30, H. G. Meyer '30, P. S. Davis '30, and R. R. Wallstein '30 in its cast...
There was opera, too. Vienna had its operatic golden age (1897-1907) under Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler, a perfectionist who, so legend has it, personally walked Brünnhilde's horse around the Ringstrasse before the performance of Götterdämmerung in order to prevent stage accidents. Vienna was never especially fond of innovations, but some became famous. When Soprano Maria Jeritza was rehearsing Tosca with a Scarpia who knew not his own strength, she landed flat on her face on the floor just before her big aria, Vissi d'arte. She sang it from there...
...Named because its original property at 14th and G Streets was given by one Henry Foxall in gratitude to God for the preservation of his cannon foundry from the British when they invaded Washington...
...about $9.50 a week. The petitions were started in the freshman dormitories, perhaps because the Class of 1930 wasn't yet set in its ways and would be more amenable to the new Hall. After more than two weeks, however, only some 200 had signed up, and Albert G. Hart '30 halted the petition on the grounds of inadequate response. The CRIMSON took up the drive for the hall by sending out 3000 pledge cards, still in the hope of receiving 500 back. Professor G. H. Edgell, Dean of the School of Architecture, praised the effort, and remarked that...