Word: glees
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Racial issues have forced the cancellation of a Glee Club concert planned for next Tuesday in Tallahassee, Fla., a professor at Florida State University said yesterday. Arrangements were dropped when that institution told the Glee Club it would be unable to guarantee a Negro member of the Club treatment identical to that given white singers...
Wiley L. Hausewright, professor of Music at Florida State, who had arranged the concert, last night refuted the Glee Club spokesman. He described the events leading to Florida State officials' decision that including Monroe F. Dowling, Jr., '56 in the concert and reception following would be unwise...
Hausewright said the concert had been dropped by "mutual consent," after Jerome C. Kindred '57, trip manager of the Glee Club, had telephoned him last Thursday and asked whether Dowling would receive treatment equal to that given the other members. Hausewright said that he could not give such assurance, and the next day the Glee Club wired him, telling him that unless it could be given, they would not appear. After conferences with students and officials at Florida State, Hausewright said he wired the Glee Club Saturday, "CONCERT CANCELLED...
...economist who has a fine bass voice and writes short stories, Gill has been pressed into service by a group of Leverett men seeking to reestablish the House glee club, which should be in operation next year. Since Leverett has several members of the creative writing branch of the English department on its staff, Gill thinks a creative writing group may be in the offing...
Leverett is well populated with athletes, but it is not called "the Athletic House." It consistently places high in intramural sports, but it is not called "the Straus House." Despite its sometime orchestra and glee club, it is not called "the Music House." It has been forced to share with almost every House the title of "the Friendly House...