Word: pierian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pierian expect to give a concert in honor of the Princeton nine on the steps of Matthews this evening...
...number of students attending Mr. Henschel's concerts in Sanders itself was disproportionately small; while the concerts which Prof. Paine arranged, on his personal responsibility, in Sever, were a failure through the utter indifference of the students, for whose benefit they were intended. As for the Glee Club and Pierian, they have been continually disheartened by the apathy of the students. Year by year we must add to the trouble of rehearsing that of a personal canvass in and out of the college, succeeding with difficulty in raising sufficient money for defraying the current expenses. If it were...
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...concert of the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality gave rise to several reflections on the subject of our college song. It has often been commented on that "Fair Harvard" should remain forever the distinctly Harvard song. Setting aside the hymn like character of the air, it seems a pity that a college that has graduated so many musicians has not been able to obtain for itself an original production more suitable to the many occasions when such a song is required. The only other song that is recognized as a distinctly Harvard song is the "Yale Men Say," but this...
...tragick cantata, "The Grasshopper," was the hit of the evening. As the first attempt of the Pierian and Glee Club together at concerted music it was full of interest and particularly creditable. The solos of Messrs. Howe, McCagg, Lilienthal, Thorndike and Easton were well given and well received. It was in this number, and in the Hymn to Odin and Image of the Rose, that the Glee Club made its best appearance. In its rendering of college songs the club was far from coming up to the standard of former years. The club is much too small to sing effectively...