Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dresel, '87, who is spending the winter at Dresden, has written to the Boston Post an interesting description of the prominent players who took part in the great chess tournament recently held in Leipsic...
...western trip of the Glee and Banjo clubs terminated Monday night, the men arriving in Cambridge at a late hour. The tour in every respect satisfied the strongest hopes of all the members. Before houses crowded with the most enthusiastic audiences, the clubs did themselves great credit, and deserve the heartiest thanks of the college for so admirably representing it. The Harvard clubs at the different cities seemed to vie with one another in the manner of receiving their guests, and nothing was wanting in the way of hospitality...
This first trip of the clubs goes a great way in renewing the college feeling among the alumni, and we sincerely hope that a precedent has been set for future yearly tours of the clubs...
...eyes of the students as they entered Chickering Hall was very gratifying. Of the twelve hundred seats, nearly every one had been taken, and the audience was as brilliant as it was large. The clubs were stimulated to do their best, and the result was undoubtedly a great surprise...
...capacity by people who found little fault with the programme. Swarts, '88 and Longworth, '91, both of Cincinnati, were given solo parts ; the former sang his old favorite "The Capture of Bacchus" and the latter rendered on his violin the difficult adagio from Viotti's Twenty-second concerto. The great hit of the evening here as in St. Louis and New York was the college song, "Imogene Donahue" with solo by Lockwood, '90, and the "Darkey's Dream" by the Banjo Club. In regard to the Glee Club we quote a few words from a Cincinnati paper: "If music, heavenly...