Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order to combine with the foregoing lesson in natural history a harmless drill in mathematics, and so give the book value as a compendium of musical forms, a chant is inserted, having for its words the pathetic trilogy of the 'three little kittens in a basket of saw-aw-dust.' This number doubtless suggested serious thoughts to the compiler, for he accompanies it with the touching refrain, 'I've lost my doggy,' and the more pretensions, 'A horrible tale,' in eight-line stanzas with a moral beginning con dolore and increasing in pathos till it becomes as much more doloroso...
...limit is exceeded, the student, ipso facto, ceases to be a candidate for a degree, and can only be excused from this penalty by vote of the faculty, and this not unless every absence is satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal service, a chant, lesson, hymn, etc., and last about twenty minutes. The faculty make a point of being particular in regard to chapel and seem to be growing more so as the elective system affords a method of avoiding attendance. "The majority of the students would be pleased, in my opinion," our correspondent...
...Lotus Glee Club, composed of graduates of Harvard, rendered several selections at the annual meeting of the Boston Bar Association. Among the songs was a chant of chap. 2, sec. 7, of the constitution of Massachusetts, defining the powers of the governor...
...recited an incantation, which was interpreted by Mr. Cushing, "May the spirit of the bow, the arrow, the shield, the spear - may the spirit of war set up-on you all." A religious dance was then given by three of the Indians, accompanied by the weird music of a chant and chorus. Three times three were then given for Mr. Cushing and the Zunis, and for Mr. Hemenway, the giver of the Gymnasium, and then the last of the winter meetings of the H. A. A. adjourned...
...still breaking. Proctors approaching nearer and nearer; little fels skip out; Old Fel. breathes, and both he and Fast disappear; proctors chant...