Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competing, "Give a Rouse" by Bantock has been selected as the prize air. The University singers have picked "Dainty, Fine, Sweet Nymph" by Morley for their light air, while "Up the Street" has been chosen as the college sir. After the contest all the glee clubs will unite to sing "The Prayer of Thanksgiving", a Netherland folk song, and while the judges are deciding the outcome the University Glee Club of New York will fill in the time with other songs...
...other reason. But now there will be even more cause for bitterness, for the good old college drinking song is doomed. The plague has reached the Institute down on the Charles. Tech's "Stein Song" is dead. No longer will the alumni rally round the festive board and sing the song of "a stein on the table". For the stein is no longer there. It has ceased to be the emblem of good fellowship. Now it is but painful memory...
Fifty members of the University Glee Club will go to Providence this evening to sing in the Elks' Auditorium at 8 o'clock. The concert, which will the under the personal direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06, is being held for the benefit of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund...
...crime, were offered to these precious innocents. These are instructive, but milk-mild, cases of that beneficent justice that spares the criminal and despoils the public. The police records are full of much more striking cases. Possibly this quick-forgetting community still remembers Hoey, the paroled convict from Sing Sing out on bail, who murdered Patrolman Neville. Possibly it will remember for a few days Boddy, "the cop-fighter," freed from the seclusion of Blackwell's Island on parole, who justified the thoughtful tenderness that let him loose by murdering two detectives...
...There is in us experience at the least. There is in them but appetites at the most. Why are they here? The most golden time and opportunity which they waste would gladly be used by our fellows. Let them go to an island in the sea and there sing songs until they die. They have anticipated heaven and envy us our hell...