Word: horns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BASE-BALL - THE HORN GAME - LOCAL ITEMS...
...would be much shocked at the apparent want of reverence amongst the students. Some are talking about the coming sports, betting on the different events, others are getting up first hour's recitation; while, from the rear, a freshman regales the audience with the exquisite melody of a tin horn. Why is this irreverence? The solution is easy. By compulsion, chapel has lost its sacred character. Instead of being considered the right way to begin the day, it has degenerated into a means of avoiding a bad mark. All sacredness being lost, it is the undergraduate's privilege...
Frederick Louis Ritter, professor of music at Vassar College, has composed a serenade for two violins, viola, violoncello, contrabass, flute and French horn, which will be performed at the next concert of the New York Philharmonic Club. Two new compositions by Rafael Joseffy will also be performed for the first time in public at this concert, which takes place on March...
Then, warder, toot loudly your blatant horn...
...fourth of the whole number of students in the Academy, wishing to express their disapproval of the action of the Faculty in removing two young men from the Academy, and in expelling one more of their number, went around to the professors' houses at night and gave a tin-horn serenade. After the serenade some persons who probably were not in the Academy went to the houses of two of the professors and broke some glass in the doors and windows, - a proceeding which the students did not intend should take place, which they had nothing to do with...