Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidates for the seven positions open in the Freshman crew management are asked to report at the B. A. A at 1.15 o'clock Monday...
...bachelor's degree costs $4800 and four years, the master's $6000 and five, and the doctorate, $8500, and seven--a not inconsiderable investment--in terms and money alike. And the reward? For the few who are chosen, it is a professorship, attained only at the end of 15 or 20 years, and worth, at a small college, perhaps $3000, at a medium-sized one $3700 and at the largest $6000. The gains of a deanship are slightly higher. Whereas professors average $3111 and instructors $1588, deans in 44 institutions receive a mean...
...officers recalled that General Pershing received $10,500 a year as Commander-in-Chief of the A. E. F., that U. S. lieutenants of over three years' service receive $2,000 a year; that a U. S. private may work up through the seven grades of enlisted men from...
Otto Klemperer, seven-foot German conductor here for an engagement as guest leader of the New York Symphony, walked on the stage of Mecca Auditorium, bent his big frame to bow to a fascinated audience, turned to the orchestra. He lifted his great arms and the entire orchestra fell under the shadow of his wings, very capable wings that have sheltered most of the prominent orchestras of Europe. New Yorkers, who like to see as well as hear, watched him fascinated, saw him hunch his great head down between his shoulders, pick with his long fingers short staccatos from...
...taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade pupils, picked at random, to be assembled at desks on the stage of Fullerton Hall at Chicago's Art Institute. He brought together 500 school principals and invited citizens to be audience for the exercises. He chose seven "appraisers" to sit in judgment. He prevailed on a group "who admit themselves to be of average intelligence" to act as examiners and give tests to the 40 "sample" pupils. Each test was conducted by "a citizen with practical knowledge of the subject under consideration." One Elmer Stevens examined...