Word: sixteenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarters on Holyoke Street, the improvement in equipment would see a like change in the service rendered. To the undergraduate who finds it necessary to consult the University physicians, the more comprehensive office hours, extending with little interruption through the day, and the comfortable waiting rooms with the February sixteenth issue of "Time" are the only evidences of such a change...
Winning their sixteenth meet in 18 starts the Varsity swimming team left the Pittsburgh swimmers in their wake by a score of 52 to 23 at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night. Losing only the low board diving event the Crimson allowed but four seconds and five thirds to the Pittsburgh team, which up to Friday night has been undefeated in its last 14 meets...
...home. The family's income is in the neighborhood of $50 a week, on which they live comfortably in a six-room house or apartment, and the girl spends her entire life at home. She starts to school at the usual age and leaves shortly before her sixteenth birthday. Within a few months she goes to work in an office which is about 30 minutes traveling distance from home. For almost two years she does clerical work about seven and a half hours a day. five and a half days a week. She wears the usual type of clothing...
Once again the question of the purpose of secondary public schools comes to the fore with the recent statement of Dr. Payson Smith, state commissioner of education, that modern subjects are more essential than "sixteenth century subjects" because they "represent the needs of a modern child in a modern world." Going further, he declared that music, art, manual training, vocational and physical education should be stressed; and that English grammar and composition are far more important than Latin, Greek, or any of the modern languages. Apparently Dr. Smith is speaking in rebuttal of the recent attacks on the "frills...
...student of musical history, and even more for the chorus leader, this period forms an unceasingly rich source of that stream of musical composition which flowed from the royal chapels of Europe. Up until the mid-sixteenth century the development was a national one. The spread of printing, the tendency of composers to look to the horizontal aspect of their music as well as the vertical one, and the perfection of the art of diatonic composition have a unifying effect on the choral music performed after that time. Mr. Wooldridge devotes generous portions of his book to a discussion...