Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen day was one which history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
...student, the plan is mostly unfeasible because it would be in direct contrast to the main purpose of the secondary school. There has been much regret evidenced recently by educators at the disappearance of the liberal college under the increasing pressure for specialization. In laying a firm foundation for later years of university training is found the most imminent and pressing problem with which the preparatory school is faced. The most practical objection to the Choate plan is the doubtful efficacy of specialization in the secondary curriculum...
...very likely that Garrison and Batchelder will be the starting due. The starting forward line will also be experienced with the starting trio practically certain to be chosen from among six men: Captain Putnam, Lakin, Cross, Holbrook, Everett, and Wetmore. Coach Stubbs' Sophomore stars should break into the game later...
Although it is regarded as a certainty that he will be given full charge of the University shell later in the season, Whiteside said he would devote a considerable part of his time to the Freshman eights, since it is on them that he will have to rely for his material in later years. His contract with Harvard binds him for three years to a position on the Crimson staff...
...piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked it, played it at Weimar. Glazounov's career and reputation kept pace from then on. He wrote much music swiftly, first inspired by Russian folklore, later by classical forms. In 1905 he was chosen to succeed Rimsky-Korsakov as director of the Imperial Conservatory of Music at St. Petersburg. In 1917, when most artists fled Russia, Glazounov stayed on, fought bravely to maintain the pre-Revolution standards of the newly named Leningrad State Conservatory which he heads today...