Word: strings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Technology is sending up an exceptionally strong team this season, and hopes to repeat its victory of last year over the Crimson. From 1922 to 1928, Harvard had a continuous string of victories over the Engineers, but last year, for the first time, on its home floor, M. I. T. put a stop to this record with a 29-23 score...
Outside of the occasional concerts given in Boston and Cambridge by the various string quartets which tour the United States, students in the University seldom have the opportunity to hear the works of composers which many regard as the highest developments of musical composition...One quartet has played in Cambridge thus far this year, the Stradivarius group, which plans to give several more programs during the term...
Horween has proved himself a capable coach and a wise and patient leader. He is a man for whom his players will work willingly and without the feeling that they are being driven to death for the sole purpose of producing a string of victories. In the four years that he has been at the reins in Harvard football his teams and their records have shown consistent improvement and this improvement has had its reflection in the ever growing optimism and good will of the student body...
...Lener String Quartet comes from Budapest. Its members are Jeno Lener, first violin, Joseph
...Sandor Roth, viola, Imre Hartman, 'cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled...