Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the reaches of a great department store, empty of its shoppers, drifted one evening last week the sound of sweet, incredibly sweet strings, played on by sensitive, appreciative fingers. It was the first concert given with the Rodman Wanamaker collection* of rare Italian violins, violas and cellos, in the auditorium of this Manhattan store. Alfred Casella, famed Italian composer, musicianly, masterly, led the string orchestra picked from the New York Philharmonic,' Dr. Alexander Russell played the organ; Josef Szigete, Hungarian violinist, played on the famed "Chant du Cygne" made by Stradivarius in 1737, when he was 93, Saint-Saens...
...There is a class of insects," he said, "which are parasitic upon other insects; a rather rare occurrence in the animal world, by the way. As a rule one group of animals is parasitic upon some totally different group, as for insects on mammals. In this case, however, a class of insects is parasitic upon another class of insects. The economic importance of this fact is well known. Where insects are introduced into a foreign country they often prove very destructive because there are usually in that country no parasites to prey on them. This, you know, was the case...
...nose-blowings which he caused were of a different character. The pathetic old man was a sentimental character in a very sentimental play; but Mr. Clive did not quite overact, the rest of the company was not over-sentimental--Miss Standing had ample opportunity, but over-sentimentality is a rare thing with her--and the great American public likes sentiment, anyway...
...With this change in our plan of learning we must also make a change in the system and spirit of teaching. The present lecture system, except in rare cases, is too formal and affords too little vital stimulation to the student. I believe that the tutorial system as it is carried out Oxford and as it is being introduced at Harvard is a step in the process of informallzing education. At Wisconsin nothing has been done as yet to establish this system but it seems very likely that it will be in the future...
...Turner '27 showed rare form in the tournament when he won both his semi-final and final bout by falls. Mowatt of Northeastern proved no match for Harvards undefeated 115-pounder, and was thrown in two minutes 57 seconds. H. M. Kullman '27 was forced to two overtime periods in order to gain a close decision over Harris of M. I. T. The men were evenly matched, but Kullman's superior mat-work proved the deciding factor...