Word: glees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...singing of the Glee Club in front of Holworthy...
...would be to reproduce, for the benefit of future ages, the exact tones and expressions of great orators like the Rev. Joseph Cook and Daniel Pratt. An autophone of the babel at Memorial Hall during dinner-time would be a valuable means of awakening old recollections. And the Glee Club, too, instead of being photographed, will hereafter be phonographed; and in place of preserving the members' portraits - which in a few years will be all out of style - we can carefully preserve and accurately reproduce the melodious tones of their voices, a source of great surprise and much edification...
...Wright, Latham, and Nunn also doing well. Nunn and Wright played best in the field for Harvard, while Hamill and Dodge excelled for Princeton. Immediately after the game an excellent dinner was given to the Nine by their attentive hosts. In the evening the Princeton Glee Club and College Orchestra favored the visitors with some excellent vocal and instrumental music, after which a bountiful collation was served, to which the Harvard men did full justice...
...venture a slight criticism on the singing of the Glee Club, it seemed to us that they did not attack their pieces with quite enough firmness, and that in one glee they did not all begin together. However, these minor faults should not be taken to account, when we consider the excellence of the rest of their work. Mr. Heard is evidently well qualified for his position as leader...
...dancing in Memorial Hall was a success, though we doubt whether the couple whose conversation we overheard as they entered the hall received as much pleasure from their waltz as they did from the music of the Harvard Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality...