Word: fairs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...America. 2. Overture--Pique Dame, Suppe 3. Selection from "Florodora," Stuart 4. Land Sighting, Gireg Baritone Solo by H. M. Boylston '03. 5. Invitation a la Gavotte, Waldteufel 6. "The Shade of the Palm," Stuart 7. Selections from "King Dodo," Luders 8. Soldiers' Chorus from "Faust," Gounod 9. Fair Harvard...
...September 8, 1836, was held the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the College. It was during one of the ceremonies of that occasion that Fair Harvard was first sung. In 1865 a solemn funeral procession on the occasion of the death of Lincoln, formed before old Gore Hall, passed by Boylston and Grays to the present Unitarian Church, where the most solemn services were held, in which Phillips Brooks made a prayer of remarkable power and passion. On January 26, 1893, with the snow deep on the ground, but with the whole University, officers, students and servants standing...
...offices. In other words, the necessary qualifications would not seem to turn on the matter of individual ability, since these men will be judged on Class Day by their merits alone. The offices of poet and orator need for special explanation. The odist writes words to the metre of "Fair Harvard" and these words are sung to that tune at the close of the Class Day exercises. The ivy oration requires in the writer a fine vein of humor, of a more or less subtle sort...
...French verses and the intonation, which is very difficult in classic verse, was exceptionally good. The articulation, which could be noticed by the motion of the lips and the opening of the mouth--the chief characteristic of Latin tongues--was very marked. The movement of the play was fairly well sustained, giving fair unity to the plot, which is more complicated than those of past Cercle plays. The action was especially well sustained in the second and third acts. In the first act there was a little hesitation in the dialogue, which was soon remedied when the nervousness incidental...
...team, the lacrosse team, or some other athletic organization. Every year men give out money for the support of the different teams and crews, and yet the report of the Athletic Association shows a surplus every year far above the total amount received from subscriptions. Therefore, is it not fair to the members of the University, the stockholders of the Athletic Association so to speak, to have a statement made of what is done or going to be done with this surplus? It would also be a great satisfaction to everybody to know whether subscription agents are sent around because...