Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feel that a man has been omitted who deserves to be nominated on account of his college record. When this right is used intelligently, there can be no possibility of hostile groups of politicians developing in the class. However, when this right is considered a lawful instrument for the furthering of an individual's or a clique's own interests, then the offence itself will immediately cause hard feeling and harsh words...
...more will the Harvard student homeward bound with his bulging suitcase, his rattling golf sticks, his tennis racket, and proverbial musical instrument, be seen tearing frantically through the human swarm on Summer street. No more will he have to perform superhuman feats of line-plunging, of long distance running, of athletic leaping over intervening horses, wagons, and automobiles, only to arrive as the last car of his train rolls majestically from the South Station. The great work is complete at last; science is vindicated. The oldest Senior who said gloomily that it would never be finished is a prophet without...
...Austrian instrument-maker has provided us with five violins two violas, a cello and a contrabass, made of birchwood. I provided the strings and I know not how many unfortunate Siberian horses sacrified their tails for the bows. All the war prisoners, particularly the Hungarians, need music almost as much as food. They simply cannot exist without it. When instruments cannot be bought they make them out of whatever happens to be available...
Samuel Hill's money will build in the city of Seattle, one of the three great Pacific ports from which American goods have started to flow to Asiatic Russia, an instrument through which Americans may come to have some grasp of the meaning and the soul of Russia. Such a gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens...
Trials for the orchestra, open to all members of the University-not necessarily undergraduates-are held in October and March. Candidates to be retained must show reasonable proficiency in playing some standard orchestral instrument. The Sodality is a social club which conducts other affairs of the orchestra. "Any student in Harvard University possessing the requisite ability and an interest in the activities of the Sodality is eligible for active membership." However, "the membership is elective and may be conferred upon only such persons as the existing members wish to associate with themselves...