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...understood here in College, it may not be out of place to state them definitely and unmistakably. At the beginning of the first term, last October, the attention of the editors of the Crimson was called, by certain members of the Glee Club, to the anomalous proceedings of the "Arion Quartette" during the previous summer. The criticism with which the editors of your paper saw fit to visit that new musical society did not tend to ameliorate matters between the "Arion Quartette" and the Glee Club, and two first tenors, who belonged to both organizations, severed their connection with...
...Arion Quartette gave a concert at Lowell last week...
...Arion Quartette gave a concert at Lowell last Tuesday...
...risk of uselessly protracting a futile discussion, we wish to say a few words more about the "Arion Quartette." The facts on the other side have been produced in the Advocate, and it seems well that we should produce ours. The Quartette in question stated, on their earlier programmes, that they were the "best musical talent" of Harvard College, and called themselves the "Harvard Arion Quartette." These were the facts on which we wrote our last editorial about the Quartette. What we did not state, and what we did not then know, was that they afterwards changed their name...
...whatever to prefix the word "Harvard" to their club, since by doing so they make it a representative body, - a thing that it emphatically is not. While we condemn such practices as vigorously as we know how, we do not wish to judge special cases so harshly. The "Harvard Arion Quartette," of last summer's fame, probably never thought in what a false light they were showing the College, and what injustice they were doing the Glee Club. It was stated in the New York papers, we believe, that the quartette "was composed of the best musical talent at Harvard...