Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton netmen boast two singles players of no mean racquet-wielding ability in Sophomore Bill Winslow at number 1 and Captain Bill Rawls at number 2. The latter is the Senior, who in his Freshman year was termed "Parker's doubles partner" by Coach Beasely. Unfortunately he never played beside the national ace, because, as the "Princetonian" puts it, "Sadly enough, Frankie never got here...
...have been 48 others. Average circulation of the reviews: 1,414-the largest (Harvard's) 4,400, the smallest 375-with students accounting for 18% of the total. Some Harvard Law Review editors who have made good: Louis Dembitz Brandeis, retiring SEChairman James McCauley Landis, Morgan Partner Seymour Parker Gilbert, Harvard's Felix Frankfurter...
Horatio William Parker, who belonged to one of New England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...
...Parker wrote Hora Novissima, his masterpiece, taking the text from Bernard de Morlaix' 12th-Century Rhythm of the Celestial Country. The oratorio was full of magnificent solos and broad, romantic melodies, showed unmistakably the young composer's German training. After a great success in the U. S., Hora Novissima became, in 1899, the first U. S. work ever sung at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, England. Three years later Cambridge University made him a Doctor of Music...
Domestic honors came to Parker thick & fast. All in a few years he was made choir director and organist at Trinity Church in Boston, Battell Professor of Music at Yale and later dean of its music school, organist at New York's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, conductor of Philadelphia's Eurydice and Orpheus Clubs, conductor of the New Haven Symphony. By juggling his appointments, rehearsals, classes, Parker managed to carry a prodigiously heavy schedule. He still found time to write odes, masques, chamber music, organ-pieces, ballads, overtures, sonatas, cantatas, two operas. But he never equaled...