Word: sextets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles R. Allen of Greenfield, Massachusetts, member of the Freshman football team last fall and winner of major numerals, has been elected captain of the Freshman sextet. He is 19 years old, weighs 180 pounds, and is 5 feet, 11 inches tall. He prepared for Harvard at Phillips Academy, Exeter...
...festival there last week instead of in Washington. Outsiders understand that each new work earned $500 for its composer. There were four new U. S. offerings-a rambling Sonata by Henry Eichheim; a conservative Quintet by John Alden Carpenter; a hard, austere Trio by Roy Harris; a crafty Sextet by Edward Burlingame Hill. Critics preferred the things they had heard before-the earthy string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque of Alexandre Tansman; the Canticum Fratis Soils of Charles Martin Loeffler. Carl Engel, one-time music librarian in Washington, asked Composer Frank Bridge...
...lone outstanding weakness of the Boston brigade a year ago was its lack of a good forward passer. Coach Dietz has more than made up for this single drawback, however, by signing a sextet of clever forward passers any one of whom appears capable of filling the bill to perfection. Five of these lossers hall from little known institutions but they have revealed already that they will add greater strength to the celebrated Boston offense. The sixth passer is the brilliant Pug Reniner of Northwestern one of the most widely known of modern football players and a great all-round...
This mixed sextet announced the formation of the American Liberty League, which, following the custom of the day, promptly became known as ALL. The purpose of this "nonpartisan organization" was "to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and to gather and disseminate information that 1) will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and 2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property...
Gillette won the Freshman hockey managerial competition in 1932, and since then has become second assistant manager of the sextet. He will receive a major letter next year, along with the members of the team...