Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice was only light, demonstration of Dartmouth plays and a signal drill constituting the major part of the abbreviated afternoon's activities. Coach Horween also gave out numerous instructions in a talk which preceded the work in the enclosed field...
...took over the management of the concessions on Soldiers Field, faced the Army game with but little actual knowledge of how much food and drink a big game crowd could consume. The senior partners on the other hand had had considerable experience along these general lines in handling the major contests of last year, and for some reason thought they knew what ought to be procured. In a huddle with the Employment Office potentates most of the difficult problems were patched up, but on the question of sandwiches the opposite camps struck an impasse. Both had definite ideas...
...Koussevitzky, according to the Bostonians who pack his concerts and pay him what he asks, is king of conductors. Hence last week in mutual admiration began the fifth season of the Koussevitzky administration, the forty-ninth since the symphony's founding by the late Major Henry Lee Higginson. New music played: a noisy and optimistic Prelude and Fugue, written by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli, a Bohemian-born Italian...
...program of tonight's concert, which is free and open to the public, follows: Quartet in G. Major, Op. 77, No. 1 Haydn Berceuse pour un Enfant Malade Schelling Gazal (Persian Melody) Schelling Quartet in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1 Brahms
...time less than one hundred cadets had graduated, sixty-five of whom were still in active service. Although most of these graduates served in subordinate positions throughout the war, their services won commendation, and many were brevetted for gallantry in action. In 1817 Major Sylvanus Thayer, a graduate of Dartmouth and West Point and a veteran of 1812, was appointed Superintendant of the Academy. He was especially qualified to take charge of West Point; his system, many parts of which are evident at the present time, for sixteen years had the greatest influences on cadet life...