Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Petersburg was beginning to pay attention to the music of this versatile young man. That summer he wrote his first string quartet, heard a chorus sing his Ode to Mendelssohn a few months later. In 1910 he did military service in the Caucasus. When he had served his term he went back to St. Petersburg and Moscow, composed more music, lectured on it, wrote articles about it. After the Revolution his industry won him the directorship of the People's Conservatory at Tiflis...
Most sensational team in the East last year was the one that represented Long Island University, started eleven years ago in a disused factory, which ran up a string of 43 victories in a row. Last week, Long Island got ready for the crucial game of New York's metropolitan season, against Manhattan this week, by nicking St. Thomas, 33-to-25. Other major games of last week: Navy 42, Army 40, at Annapolis; Harvard 37, Columbia 30, at Cambridge; Fordham 31, N. Y. U. 19, in New York...
Leading this outfit out onto the courts will be Dick Dorson, another of the outstanding string of crackerjack Harvard squash players. a member of the "A" team last year, Dorson went down to the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia recently to take part in the National Intercollegiate Championships. Great was the general surprise when this capable senior following in Germaine Glidden's footsteps, walked off with the championship, to become the fourth Harvard man who has gained the honor in the last six years...
This two mile race is another in which a classic struggle will be going on. Here, unfortunately, Harvard is not so well represented. Jaakko Mikkola has had a whole string of crack long distance men in the past, and names like Pen Hallowell, Art Foote and Bob Playfair are still remembered. But this year the only two miler worth much is Henry Marcy, and he has been laid up with illness; although he will be in there tomorrow, he is far from the top of his form and will probably not pick up much better than a fourth place...
These are the men who go South today to face their stiffest competition, and enjoy the pleasantest of hospitality to boot. Intensive drills have brought them to the high point of the season, and they are set to continue the string started a year ago, to take up where Dick Harlow left off in November...