Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After B. McK, Henry '24, former Ibis of the Lampoon and master of ceremonies for the evening, has opened the program with a short talk on the history and purposes of the Lampoon. J. H. Wright '25 and his orchestra will play a number of jazz selections. They will be followed by R. P. Bullard '24, Senior Chorister, and B. S. Cogan '23, ivy-orator last year, who will sing several duets...
...plan to buy up the entire town of Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, and establish there a new institution of higher learning, to be known as John Brown University. The purpose behind taking ever the community as a unit, including the hotels and amusement centers, is to insure that dancing, jazz, gambling and profanity be utterly taboo...
This is highly praiseworthy; the sponsors of the scheme, no doubt, looking abroad upon a naughty world and finding it bad, have decided to establish for themselves a little oasis of purity in the surrounding desert of profane bellhops, jazz-mad chorus girls, and deftfingered, silk-hatted Oakhursts. As an ideal, this is to be commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing...
...glee club and the jazz band will be at the meeting and there will probably also be singing by the class...
...program that he directed was designed to demonstrate the thesis of the serious artistic worth of jazz. It was certainly a selection of the best of jazz and was performed in the most expert manner. As the popular dance music of the hour it was superb. But judged by the canons of high music, as Whiteman demanded, it did not seem to be so excellent. The impression left was much the same as when that subtle artist, Eva Gauthier, included in one of her programs of songs a group of jazz pieces (TIME, Nov. 12). The best of jazz...