Word: organ
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following, taken from the Nassau Lit, will be news to Harvard men :-"Harvard has a musical instructor in the person of Professor Payne. This gentleman has charge of all the musical interests of the college. He trains the glee clubs and choruses, and daily presides at the college organ-rendering a select programme of choice music...
...Organ for Class Prayer Meeting...
...obliged to say that the enthusiasm of the students is expended on these muscular feats rather than on intellectual exercises. The hero-of his class is one who stands high, not in literature or science or philosophy, but in more physical agility. The larger portion of the ordinary news organ of the college is often given up to the report of games. I have asked the faculty to devise effective measures to avert these excesses. A committee has prepared a careful report on the subject. I trust we will be sustained in our efforts by parents and by the public...
...society houses or lodges are tasteful and convenient in design, rich in interior furnishings, forming essentially a home for the society members. Here the leisure hours of every day are passed; the piano and organ stand invitingly open; the convenient sleepy-hollow lures one to recline at ease while he reads a novel from the well-filled book-case close at hand. Here the evenings are whiled away in pleasant chat on college matters or in a beguiling game of whist; and here at various times the students, a choice number, with a few invited guests, devote the evening...
...organ-grinder's monkey receives the shining cent...