Word: octet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Challenged by a shifty Andover octet which ranks next to Yale in importance on the schedule, one of the best Freshman mat squads in years is confident of victory in the Indoor Athletic Building today...
...thoroughly unspectacular outfit of Varsity grapplers will be the prodigious task of Coach Pat Johnson this year. Set back only by the loss of '37 Captain Brooks Cavin and Lorrin Woodman, semi finalist in the Spring Intercollegiates, a determined squad, heavily re-enforced by a brilliant Freshman octet, has begun daily workouts in the Athletic Building...
...Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior decorator, sings a song called "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante's notorious rhetorical self-assurance. At one point in Red, Hot and Blue the magniloquent clown emphatically declares of one turn of events: "It's propitious!" Then a cloud dims...
...University chess team whitewashed the West Point octet by winning every match. The final score...
...octet which will sing vocal choruses for the Gold Coast Orchestra is the largest of the special singing units. There are also two quartets, one of which will sing "Gay Nineties" medleys, and the other close harmony pieces. One soloist, Henry B. Robbins '36, will render comic songs, accompanying himself on the guitar...