Word: glees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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YOUR last issue contained a letter signed "'81," the object of which was to promulgate the existence of a Freshman Glee Club. As a Freshman myself I may say that, while the idea embodied in the correspondence is one that should meet generally with favor, yet the manner in which that idea was set forth is exceedingly distasteful to a large number of Freshmen. We have no desire to compare ourselves yet with the Junior class, and any attempt to do so is certainly ridiculous in the extreme...
...Freshman Glee Club certainly has its advantages, and no doubt it might have been started most successfully had my undexterous classmate troubled himself more about its birth and troubled us less about his "first-rate 2d tenor." As the matter now stands, however, the Glee Club is out of the question; for the members of such a thing would be the laughing-stock of the College after my brilliant friend's effusion...
...advantages are obvious. It gets fellows together, and is pleasant socially. It trains men to sing, and prepares them for the regular Glee Club; and then, too, it is sure to produce a Class Song, a thing that is at present much needed in our class. I understand that the '79 Glee Club tried very hard to get a good class song, but, failing in-its attempt, was obliged to accept one offered by a man of but modest musical accomplishments. There are several men in the class who have good voices, and, because they are only Freshmen, they have...
...will be good enough to publish these few remarks in your columns. I will buy several copies of the Crimson to take round to different fellows, and then I think they will be ready to join in the attempt to start a permanent Freshman Glee Club; not only an affair for our class, but for every other Freshman class...
...they were getting an immediate return from their outlay. The method of raising money by student entertainments possesses all the advantages of indirect taxes over direct, and we are loath to see this method given up, especially as there seems to be no reason for its discontinuance. If the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality would consent to let the proceeds of their first concert go for the benefit of the Boat Club, if Sanders Theatre could be secured as the place for the entertainment, if the tickets were sold at a low figure and a thorough canvass of the College...