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...Harvard Happenings" appeared in last Saturday evening's Traveller. The writer considers the small attedance at the Glee Club concert. "Here." he says, "lies a moral: The Harvard Glee Club will draw a full house in any city it may deign to visit. Nowhere is it truer that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country than in Harvard College. Her ablest professors, with lectures which would be read with interest throughout the world, cannot fill a moderately sized hall in Cambridge." The art of writing college songs, he thinks, has been lost, none of lasting merit...
...second part, Mayerbeer's Coronation March from the "Prophet," was finely given by the Pierian, and was undoubtedly their most successful number. Owen Wister's beautiful "Spanish Drinking Song" was next given, the solo being sung by Mr. McCagg. Messrs. Frederick (violin), T. H. Cabot (cello). and Osborne (piano), gave an excellent and highly successful rendering of Schubert's Andante, op. 100; it was one of the most successful numbers on the programme. Mr. Lilienthal's interpretation of Osgood's exquisite song, "My Lady," fully matched the beauty of the song and was loudly encored. Hatton's "Good Night...
PART II.1-CORONATION MARCH FROM "THE PROPHET"..........Meyerbeer...
...Clipper was a good prophet. Harvard's chances are decidedly good for the championship...
...presumably) makes this comment: "The contributor of the best articles, both in prose and verse, is the editor, Winthrop Mackworth Praed ; a name which will hereafter be distinguished in English literature, if the productions of his maturity correspond with the promise of his youth." That exchange editor and successful prophet was J. O. Sargent, at present an overseer of the university. An appeal for the reading-room on page 64 we are tempted to transfer bodily and apply to the present day ; it would fit very well...