Word: glees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercises will include a prayer by the Right Reverend William Lawrence '71, former Bishop of Massachusetts, the reading of a poem by Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, professor of Romance Languages at the University and several selections by the Harvard Glee Club under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison...
That afternoon in the Stadium G. McN. Gates '27 will deliver the Ivy Oration. This will be followed by cheering and singing by the Glee Club. Then the class banner will be presented to the Class of 1930, whereupon a confetti battle will try and mask the appearance of the Stadium in a Venetian carnival atmosphere...
...clock--Stadium exercises: Ivy oration, G. McN. Gates; cheering; song by Glee Club; presentation of class banner to 1930; singing of "Fair Harvard"; confetti battle...
...issue of April 18 the Yale Daily News anticipated a movement already set afoot to arrange a second annual joint concert of the combined Harvard and Yale glee clubs, not to take the place of the informal meeting before the football game in the fall. . . . Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency", commented the News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation...
...meeting in Symphony Hall next spring, a second to the favor shown toward the plan by the News is in order. When the Harvard club dropped-out of the intercollegiate competition last yea there remained only informal meetings such as the concert before the Yale-Harvard football game, Glee clubs, unlike athletic teams, are self sufficient,-competition is not a necessity. But, whereas there is no necessity, there is a very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply competition. The highest degree of cooperation and a friendly spirit between...