Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studied under the late great Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward VII of Britain. When the financier died, Burleigh fulfilled his last request by singing Calvary at his funeral...
Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...
Under the supervision of Lieut. Montgomery, athletic officer, the junior and senior classes have organized a round robin basketball tournament, with games on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 1715. Monday's contests found the seniors winning their games at will, but as soon as the junior teams become better organized and accustomed to Briggs' asphalt courts, the contests should be more spirited. Standings, if available, will be posted in this column from time to time...
...attempt is being made, by means of this column, to record the news, past, present, and future, about N.S.C.S. The writer would appreciate any help, particularly from student officers in the senior class and the midshipman-officers' school; he requests that any items of interest be given to him in Gallatin...
...light snow was falling on the slender, leaning birches, the bare oaks, the tall evergreens and the huge mounds of frozen sand with the black boots sticking out. Kathy and her companions stumbled over the rough ground, past pits the size of tennis courts, to where Dr. Victor Prozorovsky, senior medical expert of the Atrocities Commission, stood on a freshly turned heap of red sand. He was directing Red Army men as they hacked out frozen, mildewed Polish corpses, arranged them on wooden stretchers for autopsies...