Word: glees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixty members of the University Glee Club will travel by bus to Phillips Andover Academy at Andover today to give a concert...
...Republican glee overlooks two things. The first and most obvious is that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...
Have not those who have been discussing the Harvard Glee Club rather missed the central point of the whole situation? It would seem that the service rendered by the glee club in developing fine taste in the younger members of our public is so fundamental, so vital to our musical welfare, that we might well regard any minor mistakes in the method of rendering it as negligible...
...occasionally shown the trying Harvard snobbishness? Quite possibly it has; but if so, all we have to remember is that the highbrow is only a little absurd and rather amusing, while the lowbrow is devastating to all that might be fine in our life. The glee club is doing an essential work in the spirit of those lovers of the best men like Charles Eliot Norton and William James, like Royce and Wendell and Santayana--who have created the noblest of Harvard traditions: and it is sad and strange to see Harvard graduates who are willing not only to refuse...
After all, however, the main point is that all these arguments about details are trivial and irrelevant, unworthy in idealistic people like ourselves. The Harvard Glee Club is doing an invaluable and sorely needed service to our higher esthetic life. It behooves us to be duly grateful, and to support so important an influence up to the limit of our resources...