Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past winter 18 entertainments have been given by student singers, monologists, jazz orchestras, etc. Audiences of from 75 to 450 attend these entertainments which have been held in various parts of Boston. The club groups are made up of boys from 8 to 16 years, whom the worker meets once or twice a week, giving instruction in athletics, games, or taking hikes. Teaching classes in night school one or two nights a week is another form of this work. Library work and teaching Sunday school are two other departments of the work in which more men are needed...
...Glee Club. The winning song will be given by the combined Class Chorus and Freshman Glee Club at the Jubilee on May 30. Either of the two men mentioned above will receive the manuscripts, which must contain both music and words. The music may be of any soft, from "jazz" to hymnal as along as it coincides with the thought of the verse Dr. A. T. Davison, director of the University Glee Club, will assist Mr. Shattuck in selecting the winning song...
...from military occupancy, and the sheets had apparently been North German Lloyd tablecloths -- otherwise appointments and condition were good. Room service was excellent, and dining room service was excellent, and dining room service approached perfection. The orchestra divided its attention between the lighter classics and "American music"--to wit, jazz,--a condition that seems to be common to France and England as well. Food at this hotel was plentiful and good, except that coffee was poor, there was very little milk and no cream, and colored goose grease in attractive pats but of villainous taste was served in place...
...first Freshman "Get Together" meeting of the year will be held tonight at 7.30 in Smith Halls Common Room. Different musical organizations, among them the '24 Orchestra, a Jazz Band, a Banjo and Mandolin Club, and a Double Male Quartet, will offer various selections of popular and classical music. There will also be several vaudeville acts presented by members of the Freshman Class...
...Zimbalist's music while somewhat disappointing was on the whole adequate. It is melodious but without pronounced individuality save in such special numbers as the song "A Cup of Tea", in the Chinese style, the jazz tune "Drop Me a Line", a Spanish song, the Viennese, polka, the dance "a la Minute" where their versatility and rythmic vitality served to redeem the music as a whole...