Word: classe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should not the Freshmen have a Glee Club? I am a Freshman, and I take a great deal of pride in my class. I do not see why '81 should not be as much of a class as '79, and '79 had a Freshman Glee Club...
...advantages are obvious. It gets fellows together, and is pleasant socially. It trains men to sing, and prepares them for the regular Glee Club; and then, too, it is sure to produce a Class Song, a thing that is at present much needed in our class. I understand that the '79 Glee Club tried very hard to get a good class song, but, failing in-its attempt, was obliged to accept one offered by a man of but modest musical accomplishments. There are several men in the class who have good voices, and, because they are only Freshmen, they have...
...enough to publish these few remarks in your columns. I will buy several copies of the Crimson to take round to different fellows, and then I think they will be ready to join in the attempt to start a permanent Freshman Glee Club; not only an affair for our class, but for every other Freshman class...
...know, but wait and see. It is a new thing, and attractive from its novelty, but I tell you a feeling is rising against it. Your cousin Ned writes from Exeter that most of his class and of the class below him are going to Yale. That is a new step for Exeter, and what does it mean? Why, that the parents are growing suspicious of Harvard's present system, and prefer to send their boys somewhere else. Now, if this is the case...
...some of the undergraduates may not be familiar with Class Day traditions and etiquette, we wish to say that it is usual for the members of the lower classes to give up without demur their rooms to Seniors who may wish to spread in them. To give up one's room on Class Day is indeed a sacrifice, but, inconvenient as it is to the lower classes to be obliged to look to their friends for shelter on this day, it is much worse for Seniors who wish to spread to have their plans disarranged through the unwillingness...