Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of Brahms, Schumann and Schubert, but it would seem that this is past. Probably it was this handicap of words ill-fitted to music which damaged Mme. Matzenauer's rendition of Schubert's "Erlkonig" when she sang it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, four years since. At any rate, Miss Braslau far overleaped it last Sunday, singing the song, as she did, with a realism too intense to be excelled. In other numbers of Schubert she triumphed as well. Especially did she impart to "Gretchen am Spinnrade," the soft sheen, the delicate shadings, which the composer intended. She succeeded...
...that all undergraduates must attend their first college exercise after a vacation, then an exception in favor of the soccer team seems reasonable. A law kept merely for its own sake is unfortunate. In this case the spirit may be maintained intact, although the letter is changed. At any rate, the present compromise satisfies no one and means that the soccer team must spend fourteen extra hours on the train...
...than once a week. This arrangement will be revised after this week. Free instruction is also open to all students who may sign up for one 20-minute period a month with Coach Cowles. He will also give private instruction to students who sign the blue book, at the rate of 75 cents for a single half hour period and $5.00 for ten lessons...
...mail is proving an incalculable asset to the government. For the past two months every part of the entire route from New York to San Francisco has been covered every day, regardless of weather conditions. This represents 100 percent efficiency for that period, the normal efficiency rate through two years being at least 96 percent. There has been no fatality in the past year...
...flyers. We have a law to that effect in Massachusetts, and it is proving very effective in preventing accidents. Many states, however, still have no such regulations, and avoidable accidents will continue to occur until safety regulations are nation-wide. No one is more anxious to see the accident rate cut down than we who are intimately concerned with aviation as an industry...