Word: sing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hotel Vendome, Boston, from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Admission will be free. There will be vaudeville performances at 4, 5, and 8.15 o'clock, at which there will be dancing by members of the Vincent Club, and at which the University Glee Club will sing. Tickets for the vaudeville, at $1 each, are on sale at Herrick's, and may be obtained at the fair...
...prayers. Short addresses of about ten minutes each will be made by Professor Francis G. Peabody '69 and Dr. Lyman Abbott, D.D., h.'90. Professor Peabody will speak on "John Harvard's Religion," and Dr. Abbott's subject will be "The Church in the College." The choir will sing the following specially selected anthems: Mendelssohn's "Periti autem" and Gounod's "Domine salvam...
...funeral ode we sing to Eli Yale...
...last night, including the three which were tried at the last meeting. The choruses of the songs were, in general, much better than the rest, and most of them would be more appropriate for football songs if only the choruses were used. "Smash the Line" is difficult to sing, and "Cambridge Town" is complicated by the introduction. "No Hope for Yale" is simple and has swing, but the close is not so good as the beginning. "The Spirit of Harvard" has a good set of words and a spirited close: while the "Harvard Love Song" has a good chorus...
...danger of being replaced. It is now scarcely ten days before the Yale game, and there is hardly time to learn songs which have little swing, and which have words unsuited to the music. The real test of a football song lies in the attitude of the men who sing it, and when everyone starts whistling a well-known tune as soon as a new song has been tried, the latter may well be considered condemned. We have a variety of songs which have proved successful in past years, and it will be far better to confine our efforts...