Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grasshopper plagues--as afflictions sent by God, that is--and they resigned themselves to the inevitable without trying to do anything about it. But Dr. Davison did something about it. He announced that the day of the sophomoric ditties was at an end, and that henceforward the club would sing real music. He introduced it to the recondite mysteries of Handel, Palestrina and Bach. And, amazing as it seems, he was immediately successful. The club took on new life, and the concerts became not only dull things for loyal Harvard alumni to attend but musically important as well. Moreover, other...
...project that in theory at least is highly commendable is most disappointing. It might be supposed that students would be more than willing to profit from the guidance of a teacher of Dr. Davison's renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched that violent protests are made...
...interest shown by members of the University tonight. The Union has supplied the opportunity and Dr. Davison the leadership. The latter feels that Harvard's songs are the equal of those of any college in the country, and that up to the present there has been no opportunity to sing them, except at the two football mass meetings where, he says, music degenerates into noise...
...from it; this enfant, is idle and, when his Hainan reproves him for his lassitude, assuredly with justice, ho surrenders himself to rancor, beating the floor with his heels, chasing the cats, the squirrel and committing many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue, a lament for the days when its pendulum would work all night; the china gods complain in childish voices; the teapot collogue with the teacup. Amazed, lie tries to hide near the fireplace, but the fire comes from its kennel...
Compositions by Professor Edward Ballantine '07 will be played by Mr. W. C. Heihman '00, C. T. Leonard 2G, Virgil G. Thomson '23, and G. A. Brown '25. M. L. Brown '25, who was a factor in the success of the Hasty Pudding show, will sing and the program includes several other numbers of interest...