Word: hear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...songs is the remarkable number which have been composed or arranged by Harvard undergraduates; the words or music, or both, of nearly twenty of them originated among the students here in Cambridge. Among those which have never been published in any college collection may be mentioned: "Wake Not, but hear Me, Love," by L. S. Thompson '92; "Faint Heart Ne'er won Fair Lady," by R. T. Whitehouse '91; "The Hoodoo," by L. S. Thompson '92 and L. F. Berry '92, arranged as sung by the latter last fall; "The Moonlighter," by E. H. Abbott '93; "Mrs. Craigin's Daughter...
...increasing popularity which college songs are finding with the public. Harvard songs have always been more or less popular, and especially of late they have been very favorably received by outsiders. Publishers are anxious to print new songs, and today it is not at all uncommon to hear Harvard music played in places outside the college...
...songs themselves. During the last few years there has been a very healthy reform in the style of college song; the "nonsense verse" form of music which prevailed not long ago, and which, while being rather amusing for a time, hardly satisfied the desires of those who wished to hear the glee clubs sing music worth singing, - this nonsense music has been given up for a style which, while still keeping an amusing element, contains much more musical worth. The kind of music which the college man writes today is by no means ideal; it might well be more serious...
Those men who showed their interest in the Progressive Union by attending the concert given by the Glee Club recently, for its benefit, and all students who realize the importance of its work, will be glad to hear that two hundred and seventy-five dollars have been handed over to the treasurer of the Union as the net proceeds of the entertainment. This sum is larger than was expected and will tend in no small degree to place the Union on a firmer financial basis...
During the evening the choir sang the following anthems: "The Pillar of the Earth" - Tours. "All That God May give to Thee" - Richter. "Hear Me, When I Call" - King Hall...