Word: glees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...concert of the Glee Club and Pierian will take place on March 8 at Lyceum Hall...
...hope we have expressed in a cordial way our sympathy with the Glee Club, in regard to the prohibition placed upon it. That sympathy, however, we cannot extend to its refusal to sing at prayers. If intended as revenge, the action must, on second thought, appear petty and childish, and in whatever light we regard it, we cannot but think that it is based on an entirely false notion of the Person to whom hymns are addressed...
SEVERAL communications have reached us relating to the decisions of the Faculty in regard to the Glee Club concerts and theatrical performances given by students. These, together with our own observation, show that there is a very general and even bitter feeling among the students against these decisions, as arbitrary, and hostile to their natural rights...
...opinion of the more moderate, who would not go so far as to deny the right of the Faculty to restrict the students' independence in such matters. For ourselves, we cannot see how the same reasons which would lead the Faculty to oppose an extended tour of the Glee Club should also lead them to prohibit all performances for money in Cambridge and Boston, where nine tenths of the audience are always the friends and relatives of the performers, and the fee is asked merely to defray expenses, and contribute to the support of boating. Cases by no means parallel...
...hope that these decisions will at least be modified, so as to allow Glee Club concerts and dramatic representations to be given, as heretofore, in Boston and Cambridge...