Word: club
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event, sponsored by the Princeton University Yacht Club, was never a contest. Racing on Lake Carnegie under cloudy skies, with winds gusting to 25 knots, the Cliffie sailors took five first places, scoring 53 points. Wellesley was second with 46 points, and Mount Holyoke third with 44. The four other sisters were left watching the wake...
...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society are like latterday minstrels; they perform all over the world but only a few times a year in Cambridge. Perhaps this is why last Friday's concert at Sanders sounded a little hasty, like a glorified after thought. The program was a long and challenging collection of renaissance, baroque, and contemporary music, and the performance showed an excellent grasp of several styles of 20th century music. But the first half of the program, devoted to early music, was less successful, in part because of the simple unwieldiness of such a large chorus...
...problems the Glee Club encountered in Carter's Emblems were more the fault of the compose than of the performers. Carter takes a perverse delight in setting words in unnatural ways, distorting normal word and sentence rhythms. The music itself, after a pedantic first section, gets underway with a piano interlude introducing the second, the builds to an exciting climax in the third and final section. The performance followed the same patter; the first part, although competent, was somewhat static, but the rest was magnificent...
...club last year considered a proposal similar to the one just passed along with two others -- one which pleged support to the President's policy, and another which called for immediate unilateral withdrawal. None of the three received a majority of the votes last spring...
...executive committee is not currently planning to submit the approved statement to the general membership because, said club president Harlan Dalton, members have not shown much interest in a Y-D stand...