Word: come
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although a few football songs have already been submitted to the committee, the number does not indicate that any large proportion of the men capable of composing suitable songs have responded to the appeal. Each year a few new pieces come out, but it is not often that a really enduring composition is evolved. This is surely not due to lack of capable musicians, for Harvard certainly has its share of accomplished performers and composers. It is rather due, we believe, to the fact that the best class of musical talent in the University feels a distaste for writing...
...Music, the universal art, is apt to come to him in its more frivolous and vulgar form, so that the regards it only as a light diversion. The exceptions to this class, men who, by fortunate environment, have experience of the best music as listeners and performers, realize that they have an invaluable resource and a quickened sense of beauty; that if such opportunity could be extended, in some degree, to the average college man, he would also gain a higher appreciation of the dignity of the art, and a considerable addition to the sum of his cultivation...
...Come, lasses and lads...
...regrets which Seniors express on leaving College is at their neglect of their opportunities for seeing places and institutions which others come far to visit. By this we do not refer merely to places of historical or literary interest in the neighborhood of Boston. There are many such excursions which would occupy a free afternoon or holiday and which would be well worth the time devoted to them. But there are in our very midst places whose existence is scarcely known except to specialization or advanced students. We refer to the museums...
...through the months of December, January and February on every Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. President and Mrs. Eliot are generally present at these functions and the various officers of the University and their wives are invited, so that an opportunity is provided for students to come in closer touch with the older men and their families...