Word: concert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Guitar Club play this evening in Longwood at a concert given by the Longwood Glee Club...
...concert given by the Yale Glee and Banjo Club at the Hyperion Theatre on the evening preceding the junior promenade, was attended by a brilliant audience. The freshmen were more than active this year in displaying their class numerals, and resorted to very ingenious schemes to get "'91" before the audience. The first number on the programme was by the banjo club, after which they left the stage. At this point placards bearing the number "'91" were hurled from the upper gallery, which was filled with enthusiastic freshmen. Doves were let loose having suspended from their neck cards also having...
...concert was interrupted for over half an hour.- New York Times...
...orchestra played unusually well, and their efforts were heartily applauded. After the concert, which lasted somewhat over an hour and a half, the men carried their instruments to the dressing rooms and returned, prepared to enjoy themselves during the rest of the evening. Legions of fair damsels were standing about, carefully guarded by griffin instructors, large women and formidable withal, The men stood around a while waiting for further developments, in the meantime casting furtive glances at the bashful maids across the hall. After a while, when it became apparent that nothing further was expected of the men, except that...
...Nevertheless the unanimous verdict was that, barring the fact that they had been almost frozen on the way to Wellesley, and that the sumptuous spread with which they were served would probably give them all dyspepsia, and that they had to pose around the corridors as statuettes after the concert instead of charming the Wellesleyians with Harvard wit, and finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with the cold, in spite of these things-I say, the unanimous verdict is that everyone...