Word: odes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...used to be customary for a boy on promotion to the Fifth Form to give a supper in his room; and afterwards to recite a satirical ode, passing comments on all the other fellows in his boarding house. These productions were often very coarse, for it was an understood thing that the authors of them were never to be molested by those whom they abused. Gladstone in his Fifth Form poem eschewed all personalities, but conveyed his opinion with great vigor on some of the abuses rife in the school, and in particular on cruelties that used to be practiced...
...feature of interest in the scheme of the coming May festival of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society is a cantata for solo voices, chorus and orchestra by Prof. John K. Paine, the words of which are from Milton's ode, "On the morning of Christ's Nativity...
...class ode will be competed for by those members of the class who do not rank as commencement men. A goodly number of pedagogues have departed to wield the Birch in winter schools, but the proportion of teachers from the senior class is very small. Reeve's American Band of Providence has been engaged by the senior class to furnish the music for commencement week. Vocalists for the concert have not yet been selected. Owing to the lack of cooperation on the part of the under-classmen the seniors have decided not to establish a lecture course this winter. Several...
...Ode...
...last rehearsal of the class song and ode was held yesterday afternoon...