Word: halloo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether or not the Glee Club was justified in withdrawing from a contest the character of which it did not consider high enough to be worth while. Various enticing ramifications of the subject have been discovered. Every week some alumnus glimpses a new and enchanting prey, gives a view halloo and writes to the Bulletin about the pleasures of the chase. There appears an aesthetic issue: the contention is raised that the club should confine itself to music that allows it to roar like a lion at supper-time. There is an etymological issue which drags in the somewhat recondite...