Word: pierian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following years Pierian turned to the pleasanter occupation of visiting Smith, Wellesley, and Radcliffe. Their first concert at Wellesley was under the auspices of the Tennis Association. Apparently the girls were somewhat shy of the Harvardmen; the Pierian record says that they offered "many prayers to Zeus the Averter that it would be the last...
During the 20's Pierian conformed with the rest of its overblown generation by planning a huge summer tour which included Canada and Hawaii. Before the University could cancel the trip, Pierian has lost $7,000 in defaulted bonds. Within five years, however, the debt was reduced...
Thirty-five years of little association with the Annex seems to have improved Harvard-Radcliffe relations, because by November, 1936, members of Pierian were willing to assist the young Radcliffe Orchestra in some of its bigger concerts. But the Radcliffe Orchestra did not suffer from the lack of Pierian assistance in its separate concerts. "The spirit of the young players lent to their music a vitality not always found among professionals"--Boston Globe...
...Radcliffe girls found their version of Pierian good cheer in their spring picnics and trips to Scituate, but "they never", according to Mrs. David Bailey, the orchestra's conductor for three years, "had any parties with the boys--in fact we saw them only at rehearsals...
Joint concerts became more frequent in the late '30's until finally in 1942 the Pierian suggested that the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra be formed. Both groups could benefit from this step because the girls needed basses and the men strings. After a year of trial, the group held a plebiscite and voted to have permanent status...