Word: pistone
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...management of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra announces Mr. Walter Piston, of the Music Department, as conductor for the season 1921-1922. Mr. Piston succeeds Mr. Ernst H. Hoffman '18, who resigned during the summer to study music in Europe...
...Portuguese and an African Black are introduced with good differentiation. Soon terror is spread in the heart of the hero and the reader is prepared for a critical scene full of danger. We are disappointed at this point to find the hero relieves himself from the embarrassment of a piston in the hands of a pirate being thrust in his ribs by "absently, and almost reminiscently, removing the piston from his hand and backing away, pointing it at the crowd." It is difficult to forgive the writer for this after having laid his scene of blaspheme and gore...
...first piston match for the University R. O. T. C. team will be held on Saturday, May 7, by telegraph, the Harvard team shooting on its own range at Waverley. Only first and second year men will participate, inasmuch as the training at Cornell is compulsory for the first two years only, the team being open only to these students. In the following matches with Oklahoma, Princeton, Yale, and Pennsylvania, the University team will include men from all the military courses...
...avoidance of "rushing" the slides. There was hardly the slightest perceptible "hang" of shoulders or hands at either end of the stroke. Although the body work was not all that could be desired, the "watermanship" or action of the blades was as smooth as the stroke of a piston...
...cylinder for all four men instead of one cylinder for each of four men, as is usual on hydraulic rowing machines. The two bow men pull on one yoke, and the two stern men on another. These yokes are pivoted on a cross head to the piston. By this arrangement the two bow men and the two stern men must pull exactly alike. It can be seen whether they take the stroke at the same time and pull alike...