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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seniors defeated the Freshmen, and the Juniors vanquished the Sophomores in the relay races at the Winter Carnival yesterday. In the interdormitory contest, Smith won an easy victory leading from start to finish. Gore defeated Standish after a hard fight for second place...
...Third Annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest will be held in Carnegie Hall, New York, on Saturday evening, March 4, at 8.15 o'clock. Two new competitors, Princeton and Penn. State, will enter the contest this year in addition to Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia and Pennsylvania,--the original competitors. This year's competition will be unusually keen because of the fact that the University Glee Club and that of Dartmouth have each won a leg on the attractive trophy offered by the University Glee Club of New York...
...biggest feature of the contest will be the singing by each club, individually, of Edward MacDowell's spirited "War Song." This selection will probably be the chief feature in determining the judges' decision, for it forms the only common basis for comparison. Each club will also sing two other pieces, one a light classic composition and the other a college or football song. Another interesting feature, in addition to the competitive singing, will be the rendering of Kremser's Old Netherland folksong, "The Prayer of Thanksgiving," by the combined competing clubs and the University Glee Club of New York...
...Intercollegiate Musical Council, under whose auspices the contest is held, has obtained as judges Mr. John Hyatt Brewer, conductor of the Apollo Club of Brooklyn; Mr. Louis Koemmenick, conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York; and Mr. Victor Herbert, composer and conductor...
Captain Burgess is the most brilliant player in the forward line, but an injury to his knee, received in the Dartmouth game, may possibly keep him out of tonight's contest. This is his third year on the team, and he and York, who also played last year, are easily the stars of the Yale combination. Teamed up with Burgess is Dickey, also a veteran of two years' experience, and these two have developed an unusually good short passing game. Against them Harvard sends a speedy pair in Percy and Baker. Percy, with his skating, stick-work, and lightning shots...