Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glee Club won the Intercollegiate Glee Club contest held Saturday night in Carnegle Hall, New York city. Syracuse and Columbia divided second honors and Harvard failed to place. Thirteen colleges and universities were represented by their glee clubs including Grinnell College of Grinnell, la. The judges were Madam Louise Homer, Mr. Gilbert Gabriel, and Dr. Walter Damrosch, chairman. The contest was won on a point basis...
...judges of the contest this year will be Madam Louise Homer, Mr, Gilbert Gabriel, music critic of the New York Sun and the New York Globe, and Dr. Walter Ramrosch, chairman. According to the rules of the contest, the songs are judged on a scale of 100, 30 points being the highest possible score for the light song, 50 for the prize song, and 20 for the college song. There being three judges, the total scale...
...Since Homer wrote of the heroic feats of unhappy Achilles and of the exploits of the ingenious Odysseus, history has drawn its heroes from the great. The mere nod of a mighty king was of more account to historians than all the people of his kingdom. The era of democracy in history has just begun, and evidently John Buchan is its prophet...
...which he won his fame may still exist in remote places, although even Mexico is amusing herself with airplanes and gas, but as a general thing it is gone forever,--and with it the chances for those Herculean exploits which have held readers enchanted from the days of Homer to the somewhat more recent ones of Richard Harding Davis...
...Homer S. Gumming, of Connecticut...