Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson coach, who has nursed the game from its infancy in 1914 to a nation-wide pastime today, it was just a sign that squash is growing up, that the pupil is getting good enough to beat the master now and then...
...Ludwig Wüllner, who started life as a professor of philology in Münster, toured the U. S. in 1908-10; 2) Julia Gulp, a Dutch contralto (originally a violinist as well as a singer), who visited the U. S. in 1913; and 3) Elena Gerhardt, a pupil of the late great Conductor Artur Nikisch, who came...
...crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right and should continue. I told him what I could teach...
Small Julia Hatcher, pupil at Hatcher School, Marked Tree, Ark., raised her hand. Said Julia: "I want to leave the room." Asked teacher: "Why?" Replied Julia: "Because the room is on fire.'' Out marched the children. Down burned the school...
...time this week by the Boston Symphony, the "Requiem" has been conducted abroad by Mlle. Boulanger at the concerts of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London last November, and in the autumn previous. She is peculiarly fitted to interpret this work, since at the Paris Conservatory she was a pupil under Faure. Dr. Koussevitzky will lead the orchestra while Mile, Boulanger plays the organ...