Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sousa and his band have gone on many extensive tours, several times to Europe and two times around the world. During the war Lieutenant Sousa joined the navy and became the director of a band at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill. At one time his band there was the largest group of musicians that had ever played under the direction of one conductor and became nationally known...
...fact that one man on the Yale team, Norton, got as many points as Harvard's total bodes ill for the Crimson in the dual meet. Norton won the broad jump with 23 feet 11 inches to his credit, placed second in the short dash, and third in the 220-yard sprint. He will be a dangerous man for Harvard in the meet on June 15. It looks as if the Elis could count on him for 15 points...
Harvard will have another stiff proposition when it travels to New Haven in two weeks to face these Blue athletes. The Crimson team, it was announced last night, will be hampered by the loss of its star hurdler, Fletcher, who is forced to give up track on account of ill health. Coach Farrell calls him "the best hurdler we have ever had", but goes on to say that he has never been able to do his best on account of his physical condition. In the indoor meets this winter, Fletcher showed what he might do under favorable circumstances, but this...
...Middletown, Conn., on June 5, another young man will undertake a task of magnitude. On that day, as successor to her late President, William Arnold Shanklin, Wesleyan College will induct the incumbent (1918-25) of the presidency of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.), Dr. James L. McConaughy, 37, Yale graduate, Rotarian, onetime Professor of English and Education at Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Knox...
...first time in more than 30 years Rossini's Barber of Seville for the debut of Mme. Luella Melius, U. S. coloratura soprano. Many times has M. Rouche, Director of the Opera, attempted to revive this work; on each occasion, one of the principals has fallen ill. Savoyards have murmured: "The Barber is a jinx." So formidable is this superstition that, if the Barber is revived, M. Rotiche will insure Mme. Melius against sickness. In Vienna, Maria Jeritza declared that Tenor Piccaver, with whom she had been singing in Cavallcria Ritsticana, had sabotaged her success, stolen her thunder, seduced...