Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Music is as essential to human life as a religion. The growth of true music, as the growth of a great philosophy, must be from the heart and from the mind. And to bring a man's intellect to the proper pitch for producing music, it is necessary for him to have had the time to be a student,--to have probed to the truths of life for their own sake. This is the lesson of the college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what...
...York, offers an opportunity to hear a really unique performance. In the first place, the range of the Russian male voice is far beyond that of the occidental basso, in some cases going a whole octave lower. The singing is always unaccompanied, which necessitates absolute control of time and pitch. Then, although all of the old Slavonic Church music has been preserved, in the last century there has been a great revival in its composition, and musicians like Tschaikowsky and Rachmaninoff have contributed to its stock. The concert will be very much worth hearing, if only for the unusual nature...
...March of that year he had in James, Rudolph, and Tyler, three pitchers considered at best only fair performers. At the end of the season these men were considered the greatest trio of pitchers on any team in the country, for Mitchell had not only taught them how to pitch, but had shown them how to save their strength for the time when most needed...
...best players who ever represented the University. Captain Nash is a hard hitter and clever fielder; G. E. Abbot '17 at second is a master of the pivot work around the keystone station, and while not rated a heavy hitter, is a difficult man to pitch to and fast on the bases. Both these men possess the "baseball brains" without which mere mechanical perfection of execution is often valueless...
...college has allowed some of these sporting attitudes to be imposed upon it. The undergraduates' gladiatorial contests proceed under faculty supervision and patronage. Alumni contribute their support to screwing up athletic competition to the highest semiprofessional pitch. They lend their hallowing patronage to fraternity life and other college institutions which tend to emphasize social distinction. And the college administration, in contrast to the European scheme, has turned the college into a sort of race with a prize at the goal. The degree has become a sort of honorific badge for all classes of society, and the colleges have been forced...