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Gradually the troopship drew away and at the end of the jetty that white-clad figure started Auld Lang Syne. As the gap grew, just snatches of the words came to us, and finally, just a picture of that solitary figure in white waving to us, and we swear she was still singing. We may forget many things of this war, but never the songs of Durban's lady in white. (From a magazine published on board a British troopship en route to India some time...
Sponsors of these jazz concerts are a group of Lowell House undergraduates headed by Charles Kallman '47. The next session is planned for September 11 and will feature Wild Bill Davison, Chicago cornetist, and Georgie Auld, well known tenor saxophonist...
...ceremonial pomp of the larger group. John Knox, some felt sure, would have lambasted their ceremonial complacency just as roundly as he had denounced Queen Mary's. Said one shrewd old Scottish reprobate, watching the colorful procession debouching from St. Giles's : "Just luik at they weeked auld deevils...
...misty-eyed farewell, the audience sang Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, only to discover that old acquaintance had been forgot indeed-from the wings, a little anticlimactically, entered Elsie Ferguson, Judith Anderson, Katharine Cornell...
...current sentiment had begun when Vag heard the band play "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind" at the Kirkland House party. He pictured himself in an insular jungle, and it almost seemed that that were real and Harvard the daydream. But he was glad that he was too busy looking forward to the approaching service to let nostalgia get the better...