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...died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When he died, at 31, he left some 600 songs, 6 masses, 2 sacred cantatas, 24 piano sonatas, 20 string quartets, 18 dramatic works, 10 symphonies and personal effects valued at $10. Last week, under the leadership of the Columbia Phonograph Co., Europe and the U.S. celebrated the Centennial of his death...
...opening of the basketball season two weeks ago the squad has been gradually increasing. Coach E. A. Wachter has been featuring passing, ball handling, and footwork. All the practice has been with teams divided as evenly as possible, and no attempt has been made to form a first string lineup...
...latch string obligato at the organ recital yesterday afternoon has left many persons with a distinct distaste for Harvard concerts manners. Five o'clock in the afternoon is late enough so that most of the audience should not be prevented by academic activities from prompt arrival. Other occupations may actually detain a few but the large majority at these recitals owe a discourteous and noisy tardiness to nothing more serious than pre-prandial intertia...
...Thorndike addressed the squad on keeping training and conditioning. Captain Tudor stressed the necessity for men not on the first string to work hard for a first team berth...
...Freshman team should furnish stiff competition for berths on this year's University team. The most promising candidates from the Class of 1931 are J. B. Garrison '31, and S. L. Batchelder '31. There are also a host of other men who have been ineligible or not quite first string callbre in former years...