Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endowment fund for athletics in his address to the Varsity Club last Friday night he extended and developed the line of thought that has dominated the athletic program for the past few years. For in 1935, when it became apparent how far the H.A.A. had gone off the gold standard since the flush days of the Republican era of the twenties, drastic cuts in the athletic budget made it clear that sooner or later the University would have to shoulder the responsibility for its athletic program, as well as its direction and control. And the traditional way for the University...
...their new mayor, there seems little definite promise of a respite from the city's recent reign of political squalor. Of the six candidates now left in the running, there is just one who by virtue of apparent honesty and only average ability could not fittingly bear the standard of Tammany Hall...
...Linguaphone Institute's (30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan) 3; recordings, made by the Rothschild Quartet-one of whom drops out in each series-which include selections from Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert. For students of swing, British Decca Records of London has made 14 records of rhythm accompaniment to such standard hot pieces as Dinah, St. Louis Blues, Tiger Rag, Dardanella. U. S. Decca Records plans to place them on sale in the U. S. within two months...
...final day, 2,000 zither-loving Teutons crowded into the Rochester Masonic Auditorium for the concert. Feature of the program was four favorite zither compositions by late Zither Composer Henry Wormsbacher. Though not up to the standard of world's No. 1 Zitherist Ferdinand Kollmaneck of Leipzig, Maximillian Veith plinked excellently, got a big hand...
...appropriating this title, we have set ourselves a standard which we hope we will be able to uphold...