Word: concert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students accepted the courtesies of the Rittenhouse Club after the concert and endeavored to repay the obligation with songs and with banjo music...
...train was very late in arriving at New York, and there was time only for a short rehearsal in the hotel parlors and for a hasty dinner before the hour at which the concert was to begin arrived. The sight which met the eyes of the students as they entered Chickering Hall was very gratifying. Of the twelve hundred seats, nearly every one had been taken, and the audience was as brilliant as it was large. The clubs were stimulated to do their best, and the result was undoubtedly a great surprise...
...York concert given before the students had become wearied by constant travelling was far superior to that given in Cambridge two evenings previous, and, in the opinion of many, the best given in the metropolis by a college organization for many years. The audience was enthusiastic from the beginning. The yodels by Mr. Carpenter, the violin solos by Mr. Long-worth, '91, and the bass solos by Mr. Hackett. '91, as well as many of the college songs, received hearty encores. The success most pleasing to the Glee Club was that of the glee "Courtship." The New York audience...
After the concert the clubs were royally entertained at the house of the Harvard Club on W. Twenty-second street. A large number of graduates and undergraduates were present, and the walls were made to ring with the popular Harvard songs both...
...concert in the evening was given in Association Hall on Chestnut street. As it was the eve of Christmas, the audience was not as large as might otherwise have been expected, but it made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in size. Of the concert itself, the kindest things were said. One of the city papers asserted that "the Glee Club, as a college organization, is by far the best that has yet been heard in this city; and indeed, was advanced to such a degree of excellence that members of Harvard's old glee clubs, in the days when...