Word: victrola
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gold Coast Orchestra was originally an offspring of the Instrumental Clubs and took its present form last fall. It first came into prominence at that time when it made a Columbia victrola record in New York...
...Gold Coast Orchestra, led by J. H. Wright '28, which will play for the dancing after the concert, will render several selections. The victrola records, for which the orchestra played exclusively for Columbia while in New York, will be on sale tonight...
...less. As a rule he shares his rooms with one or more friends, and when they and their acquaintances drop in--as they are wont to do--studying becomes out of the question. More and more the student is beginning to utilize his room for bridge, or the victrola, or some sort of a good time; and when he feels the need for study, he repairs to the spacious and comparatively peaceful reading room at Widener. The consequences of this condition of things are deeper than appear on the surface. By transferring all intellectual activity from his living quarters...
...such a degree that millions of human legs have become almost atrophied. Students have to be transported across the campus lest they should arrive at their classes in a state of physical exhaustion. I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by. A young man who cannot put on his shirt without being entertained can hardly be said to possess independent intellectual resources...
...winter of 1924 the explorer's ship was icebound and covered with snow. The party built three snow-houses on top of the ship and to these Esquimaux visited all during the winter to see the white man's moving picture, to hear the white man's radio and victrola, and to eat the white man's food...