Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter has its converse aspect. There is the legend of the professor and a Harvard professor it was, too, who was pursuing the even tenor of his lecture when a student raised his hand for a question and inadvertently he recognized him. The student asked his question and the professor turned to his notes. "It doesn't say," he admitted. More guarded was the Anglo-Saxon instructor who lost his copy of Caedmon and dismissed the class for a week...
...will give a concort in Sanders Theatre. The concert will be free to all members of the University and their guests. The feature number on the program will be Florent Schmitt's "Chant de Guerre," in which Joseph Lautner '21, former President of the Glee Club will sing the tenor solo...
...some inquisitor or crumpled upon a doorstep with their throats, their canary throats, slit from ear to ear. But in life, as everyone knows, opera singers have to be careful of their health. This last reflection was one that occurred to Beniamino Gigli, celebrated tenor, as he sat in a Detroit hotel, one night last week, staring at a piece of paper. He read...
...agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
...student. President Angell placed his blame back on the preparatory schools and the parents; declared that young men should be graduated from college at least two years younger (at 19); deplored "lockstep" systems and indicated intensity as the desirable concomitant to more liberal teaching methods. The general tenor of the report was, "Give them liberty, but give them work." Interesting specifications were: "Too long and possibly too many vacations. . . . Too many of the rewards of college life, of which both parents and students are avid, place a premium on physical and social maturity. ... Our tutorial systems, examinations and honor courses...