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Richard Wagner is often quoted as having said that the human voice is the foundation of all music. In the U. S., the human voice is more than this-it is the foundation of a great and prosperous trade. Behind the famous opera stars and song recitalists (the Rothschilds, the Astorbilts of their profession) there is a vast soviet of vocal students, church sopranos, ballad singers, cabaret songsters, 50,000 professional singers, male and female, and 250,000 assorted aspirants. Until recently the vocal industry was without a trade journal, but a fortnight ago the first issue of Singing...
Norton beat Miller of the University in the dash of the Harvard-Yale meet last spring, winning three places in all, but Miller turned the tables places in all, but Miller turned the tables in the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge meet. Norton was also a star at the Olympic games in Paris in 1924, when Miller was not among the entrants...
...Tilden now changed his subject to that of tennis, of which he is often hailed as the greatest exponent of all time. "The college tennis star of today cannot make the grade in the tennis championships," he said. "Of course there have been a few, but the competition is getting too keen. In fact, in all sports today, there is a tendency toward the thirties and forties in the ages of the stars, with the exception of golf. Golf used to be called the 'old man's game,' but now it is coming to be perhaps the most youthful...
...dash a galaxy of stars have been entered, and the question of who wins will depend largely on who gets the best start. Miller has been getting away fast lately, and stands an equal show with every one. Burns is still hampered by an old football injury. Pratt in the shot put is the University star in the other events...
...games in which to overtake the faltering leaders, the fast coming University second team suffered a serious blow to its hopes when it was announced yesterday that T. E. Jansen '26, number one player, has been declared ineligible following a protest from the other teams in the league. The star Crimson performer is first substitute for the University team played in two of the Class A matches earlier in the season...