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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gurrelieder | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Fordham, New York University, Ohio State, Duke, the University of Oklahoma, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania State College and Wesleyan University. The last six were winners in regional competition. After Dartmouth, New York University sang best, then Ohio State. Victorious a third year in succession, the Dartmouth gleemen took back to Hanover a silver cup given-for-keeps by Manhattan's University Glee Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rumor Confirmed | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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