Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musicians call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither her distracted family...
Died. Opie Read, 86, homespinning Tennessee wit, last of the Mark Twain school, "greatest literary shortstop of his time"; of old age; in Chicago, Ill. Huge, gangling Opie Read wrote 55 books, edited the once famed humorous paper, The Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own peculiarities by exaggerating those of others. Example: When a relative entered politics, said towering Opie Read: "He was so big that they didn't put him on a stump. They dug a hole for him to stand...
...Varsity soccer team will attempt to break the undefeated record of the Springfield booters this afternoon when the two teams meet on the Business School field in a game starting at 12 o'clock...
...paper stated that further details of the meeting would be revealed later. The hapless Maroon eleven entertains the Ohio State Buckeyes is a homecoming game tomorrow at Stage Field. The Daily Maroon attacked the school's football policy in an editorial and suggested that the alumni be encouraged to buy up a good football team...
...concludes that Harvard "certainly is the most heavily endowed school in the country, but much of its money is tied up in bad architecture and stale professors...But the university does not go out of its way to educate the average student...