Word: sing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...birds about 110 are Oscines. This means only that their vocal organs are of the same kind as the true singers' - it does not follow that they can all sing, and there are many that cannot, as the crow and the blue jay, while there are several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty...
...varsity glee club will sing in Concord next Monday evening...
...last few years there has been a very healthy reform in the style of college song; the "nonsense verse" form of music which prevailed not long ago, and which, while being rather amusing for a time, hardly satisfied the desires of those who wished to hear the glee clubs sing music worth singing, - this nonsense music has been given up for a style which, while still keeping an amusing element, contains much more musical worth. The kind of music which the college man writes today is by no means ideal; it might well be more serious and ambitious without losing...
...large number of prominent Republicans of Boston and vicinity have been invited to sit on the platform, and the Glee Club will sing during the evening. The meeting will have additional interest, since it is held on the anniversary of the birth of one of the most noble Republicans the country has ever had, Abraham Lincoln...
...Glee Club will sing for the Boys' Mission at Brattle Hall the 23rd, and at Concord, Mass., on the 29th...