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...Yale Whiffenpoofs concentrate on singing and do little choreography, Cass says. "If there's any group I'd call professional, its them...
...group's puzzling name actually dates back to its founding year, 1946. "A bunch of Kroks were sitting around thinking of things to call the group, some of which are too obscene to tell," says Stephen R. Cass '87, the Krok's historian, "but, one of them looked up at the emblem of the Hasty Pudding--a crocodile--and decided that the name could be a variation on the emblem...
...Kroks were born when David G. Binger '48 returned from World War II with a copy of the songbook of a similar group at Yale, the Whiffenpoofs. This group had been singing at Morey's Bar in New Haven since 1912, says Cass...
Binger brought the book back to Harvard and started the Kroks with a group of friends at the Hasty Pudding, a social club. The Kroks still have an office at the Pudding, practice upstairs, and "the upstairs bar is still officially the Krok bar," says Cass...
...Kroks have at least 60 applicants for about four spots each year, says Cass. He adds that the process of try-outs is intimidating: after a week of cuts, the finalists sing with eight of the Kroks while the other four stand "within a foot of each mouth and listen for blend and tone," says Cass...