Word: glees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Proctor laughs in glee...
...Glee Club reports a number of concerts in view. The concert which Cambridge people are so anxiously awaiting will be given about April...
...perfectly true that we have a Glee Club at college ; any one can verify this statement for himself by turning to the Index, where he will find a long list of tenors and basses, and a longer one of associate members. One can be readily pardoned, however, for ignorance of its existence. Though it presents so flourishing an aspect on paper, its existence is but little more than nominal. During the middle of last term it gave some signs of vitality, but the exertion of its one concert seemed too much for it. We learn that it was often difficult...
...pleasant to compare ourselves in this matter with Yale and Amherst, where music forms so enjoyable a part of the college life. At Amherst, besides a college Glee Club worthy of the name, there are a number of smaller organizations that serve as training-schools for it. What would the members of our Glee Club think of two rehearsals a day for a week before a concert, as is customary at Yale...
YOUR last issue contained an answer, by one signing himself "X'81," to the proposal for the formation of a Freshman Glee Club. We presume by the tone of this correspondence that the author has evidently been maltreated by the Lords of Creation (Sophomores). We also wish this gentleman to understand that when the Freshmen wish their hard treatment to be brought before the college (although a most interesting topic), we will take a man from our own class to express our grievances, not one who signs himself ex-eighty...