Word: ode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the ceremony the Pragger Wagger (Oxford slang for Prince of Wales) was invited to witness the chief event of the Eisteddfod-the crowning of the prize ode winner, Prosser Rhys of Aberystwith, editor of The Welsh Banner...
...John, who will go to Amherst in the Fall, graduated from Mercersburg Academy. She attended the unveiling of a portrait of Lieut. Commander Joel T. Boone, a White House physician, as well as a graduate.of Mercersburg. She also laid the cornerstone of a new chapel; heard the class ode, the music of which was written by John; heard him receive the fourth prize in English theme writing; heard him give one of eight honorary orations on Perseverance; heard a concert by the Academy Mandolin and Glee Clubs, in the latter of which John sang first bass; heard him given honorable...
...class will assemble in front of Holworthy Hall to march to the exercises in Sanders Theatre. The service will open with a prayer offered by Dean Willard L. Sperry, which will be followed by the oration by Charlton MacVeagh '24, the poem by Oliver LaFarge '24, and the ode by R. D. Gerould '24. The singing during the exercises will be led by Stanley Noel Brown...
...Sanders Theatre exercises: prayer by Dean Willard L. Sperry; oration by Charlton MacVeagh '24, of Washington, D. C.; poem by Oliver LaFarge '24, of New York City; ode by Richard D. Gerould '24, of Cambridge; Chorister, R. P. Bullard '25, of Melrose Highlands...
Elgar was born in 1857, knighted in 1904, received the Order of Merit in 1911 and the degree of Doctor of Music from Yale in 1905. He wrote a fine "Coronation Ode" on the occasion of the accession of Edward VII, and two huge oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius, after a poem by Cardinal Newman, and The Apostles. His symphonies and concertos are very popular with both English and U. S. conductors...