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...ordinary school boy" (who may be well above the ordinary in fields outside of music) will attend the concert expecting light entertainment of the Yale, Princeton and Cornell Glee Club type; or else be frightened away altogether with the thought "that's just like Harvard trying to be high-brow." In either case the reaction in the boy's mind would be to eliminate Harvard as the possible college of his choice...
...hands, all his suspicions would disappear and he would immediately tell me a hard luck story either about himself or a friend, and would accept me as an equal. At times it rather humiliated me to find that I was so thoroughly and quickly classed as an ordinary 'low brow...
...decrial of the new policy of the Harvard Glee Club. When Dr. Davison and his followers decided last autumn that "Australia" and "Gridiron King" had outworn their welcome as constant features on the concert programs, the instant accusation was raised. "Yes, the Glee Club has turned high-brow. They won't sing anything but classical stuff." Graduates became worried about the fate of a chorus from Cambridge that did not sing Fair Harvard upon every possible occasion, and that had fallen in with the spirit of the times in excerpting from their repertoire "Here's to Johnny Harvard, Fill...
There is another side to the question, however. Not that we would accuse the club of being falsely "high-brow." Not that we would for a moment go back to the old policy of barren repetition. Far from it. And yet it is not altogether unfitting that the chorus should occasionally unbend and give a few of the threadbare tunes still dear to the hearts of Harvard men everywhere. It does not smack unduly of small-town collegiate spirit to enjoy hearing the football songs and "Fair Harvard." The protests raised by the alumni in several western cities during...
...equipment is very little-a little money, and the ability to say "Buy" or "Sell." One other requisite seems to be a rather large, rather black cigar, and the ability to tilt it heavenward at a precarious and important angle. These, coupled with a slight frown on the brow which shields mighty thoughts, and our undergraduate Napoleon of Finance is ready for the fray...