Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman Glee and Banjo Clubs combined last night to give the first public concert of either organization. The Cash Boy's Club, for which the entertainment was given, is apparently a popular institution, if one may judge from the size of the audience. The programme was well received and the first concert of Ninety-four's musical organizations may be deemed a complete success. The programme was as follows...
...youth intended for the church even then, and maybe possessing budding Puritan principles, may not have been unconscious of; while those evidences which lay about him might have given some strain to his devotional instincts. The upholders of the mimic scene were quite as striking figures in the boy's memory of what in Southwark he may have seen and must have heard. He could hardly have remembered the "forenoone knell of the great bell," as the church records tell the story, when Edmund Shakspere, in 1607, was buried in St. Saviour's, and when it is fair to suppose...
...this few that the college regulations have been lately made more strict. Especially does this apply to freshmen, who, having just come from the strict rules and punishments of school, are apt to forget themselves in the greater liberties accorded here to students supposed to have passed the school-boy age. There are quietly dismissed from college every year many men, whose absence is never known without the college bounds and often seldom within them...
...student now enters Harvard who cannot pass the entrance examinations at Yale, Brown, Amherst, etc.," the writer of the letter says that at his school the preparation for no college is so severe as that for Harvard. He also says that many a tutor will engage to fit a boy for Brown. Amherst or any of the "similar colleges" in one year less than he will engage to fit a boy for Harvard or Yale. He ends by citing an instance of a student who had passed the admission examinations to Boston University, but who decided to go to Harvard...
...will be given by the united choirs of St. Paul's Church, Boston, and Harvard University. It was the old English custom to have songs and short cantatas at Harvest time and this was written for that purpose. The soprano solo will be sung by the boy soprano of St. Paul's Church, who has a beautiful voice; and there will be various other solos also...