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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spite of all efforts to secure new songs, the mass meeting last evening proved that the familiar tunes are in no danger of being replaced. It is now scarcely ten days before the Yale game, and there is hardly time to learn songs which have little swing, and which have words unsuited to the music. The real test of a football song lies in the attitude of the men who sing it, and when everyone starts whistling a well-known tune as soon as a new song has been tried, the latter may well be considered condemned. We have...
...practiced, and the old football songs rehearsed, as well as "The Spirit of Harvard," "Cambridge Town," and "No Hope for Yale," which were tried at the last mass meeting. The singing will be accompanied by Kanrich's Band, as the University Band has not had sufficient opportunity to learn the new songs. Besides the new songs already tried, four others have been chosen by the Song Committee and will be tried out tonight. They are "Smash the Line," by "XZZQ44," "The Harvard Love Song," by "Suitor," "Victory's Song," to the tune of "General Grant," by "Artichoke...
...Yale game officials are indeed to be commended. Although the trouble last year reached the public in a distorted and exaggerated from, it is true that there was some undesirable friction. We do not believe that officials should be selected hastily or carelessly, but it is gratifying to learn that men satisfactory to the representatives of both Harvard and Yale were chosen at the first meeting at which the subject came up. In spite of occasional differences of opinion, such matters are regarded from much the same point of view by the graduates and undergraduates of both universities...
...less than three weeks to the Yale game, and if our singing is to be an improvement over former years, it will be necessary for every one to learn the songs by heart. Many make no effort to do this, trusting that the words will be memorized by frequent practice. The result often is that when the Yale game comes, the new songs must still be sung, like unfamiliar hymns, from slips of paper. If there were no better reason for not putting this off until the last minute, a feeling of pride should spare us the torture of listening...
...University, but the remainder of the meetings will be for members of the Political Club only. At these small meetings it is planned to have someone speak on practical local politics, the purpose being to given men a working knowledge of political machinery. Opportunities will be given men to learn something of politics at first hand by taking active part in the political campaigns. The officers in charge this year are: President, H. M. Gilmore '08; vice-president, H. Channing '08; secretary and treasurer, E. R. Lewis...