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...Dunster Dunces recently received an offer to appear on a nationwide TV show, Name That Tune. Like the Band, Glee Club, Hasty Pudding, and numerous faculty members, they could not accept the offer because of a University rule which has remained all but invariable for over ten years. Adopted and periodically reaffirmed by a Corporation vote, the rule states that Harvard's name may not be used in connection with a radio or television show...
...Corporation feels that organizations and faculty members would be in effect selling the name of Harvard to money-making hucksters and sellers of soap. In 1950, for example, the Monsanto Chemical Company offered the Glee Club $300 to sing on one of a series of shows featuring New England singing groups. The Glee Club could not accept the offer, because it was felt that $300 was an insulting bid from ad men who would make $30,000 from the show...
...Radcliffe Freshman Chorus, the Harvard Freshman Glee Club, and the Bach Society Orchestra performed Gabrieli and Bach Sunday afternoon in Sanders Theater. A brass choir under the direction of Michael Senturia played the "Sonata Piane Forte," from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597), by Giovanni Gabrieli, and then chorus and orchestra joined in performing Bach's Magnificat in D, conducted by Allen Miller. The Gabrieli went well, with very few of those bloopers which are the bane of brass playing. The contrasts, "pian e forte," intended by the composer could have been brought out more effectively...
...candlelight banquet in the Union on Friday, May 3, will open the weekend. It will be followed by a freshman Glee Club concert on the steps of Widener Library...
Besides visiting two Midwestern institutions, Ohio Central State College and Lake Erie College, the Glee Club will sing at Becker Junior College in Worcester, Mass...