Word: gleemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining "The Art of the Folk Tale" and giving examples which he heard in the Gaelic from native Irish scops, gleemen, and peasant folk, Dr. Robin Flower will speak to Mr. Hersey's English A-4 class in Sever 11 today at two. Mr. Hersey has invited all students who are interested to attend the lecture...
...life . . ."); "Church in the Wildwood" ("No spot is so dear to my childhood"); "The Lone Fishball" and fine old "Tourelay" with its chorus: Tourelay, tourelay, With my fillaga desha, skinamaroosha, balderalda boom tadeay, Tourelay, tourelay, And the pride of the household is papa's babie. Though few college gleemen now devote entire evenings to them, oldtimers' songs are by no means dead. Alumni like them no less than does amiable Professor Phelps. And alumni tastes count when a glee club goes off touring, has auditoriums to fill. Yet one glee club has for years persistently set its face...
...last week's concert in Cambridge, an oldtime Glee Club secretary hung on the conductor's lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago. Scholarly Dr. Richard Cabot told of the Club's history. Dr. Koussevitzky made a praiseful speech. The Club sang Bach, Handel, Palestrina and an ambitious "Dirge for Two Veterans" written in sultry, modernistic vein by British Composer Gustav Hoist who taught last year...
...local glee club contest. Grimy and tired the 30 travelers arrived in St. Louis just in time to get into their evening clothes, enter the National Intercollegiate Glee Club finals. They beat Yale, Pennsylvania State, Monmouth, University of Oklahoma, Denison and Rochester, the winners in other sectional contests. Yale gleemen, who flew expensively from New Haven, sang second best, Penn State third. Not for sweet singing alone is Pomona famed. Knowing tourists come from all over California to see its huge ogival fresco of Prometheus by the one armed Mexican Muralist Jaan Clemente Orozco...