Word: banjo
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...concerts given by the Apollo Glee and Banjo clubs of Yale in and about Boston during the recess were hardly up to the standard of such college organizations...
...Yale Glee and Banjo clubs were enthusiastically received at St. Louis by the St. Louis and University clubs...
...Everybody was in full dress. All were ready to applaud whenever provocation offered. In spite of the fact that the clubs had been travelling steadily for a week, the pieces were given with greater snap, if with less care, than in New York. Encores were demanded, particularly of the banjo men, until the programme was nearly doubled. The Glee Club was assisted by Honore, '88, president of the club last year, who sang the solos in "Imogene Donabue" and "A Capital Ship." The success of the Chicago concert was due largely to Carpenter, '88, a former leader of the club...
...possible to find a member of the Glee or of the Banjo Club who does not speak in highest terms of the kindnesses shown the clubs in the cities visited, and who does not assert that, in spite of fatigue, he enjoyed every minute of the ten days of the tour...
...Bacchus" and the latter rendered on his violin the difficult adagio from Viotti's Twenty-second concerto. The great hit of the evening here as in St. Louis and New York was the college song, "Imogene Donahue" with solo by Lockwood, '90, and the "Darkey's Dream" by the Banjo Club. In regard to the Glee Club we quote a few words from a Cincinnati paper: "If music, heavenly maid, was not pleased with the appearance of these thirty dress-coated young Adonises, she can be in no wise the seraphic damsel we have been led to suppose...