Word: singed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell will preside at the exercises, and the Appleton Chapel Choir will sing...
...grand simplicity of a Wesley hymn or a ballad of the people. The misfortune is that, like some other good things, it is not exclusively our own. In England it is known as "God save the king." And in the tuneful land of Germany the words people sing to it are "Heil dir im Siegerkranz, Herrscher des Volkes ganz." It would be somewhat of a pity if at some patriotic gathering Americans doffed their hats to the pilgrim fathers, while our cousins of England began, prayers for the salvation of their king, and some well meaning although recent, patriot, burst...
...Tuesday evening there will be dancing in Memorial Hall and Hemenway Gymnasium for the Seniors, and guests. Before this, at 9 o'clock, the Glee Club will sing on the steps of Widener Library...
...would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical Latin sentimentality, let the noble sentimentality of the Belgian people which saved the world from Prussian militarism be an answer...
...singing of a national anthem has so long been associated with patriotic devotion that its value to a state has become axiomatic. When the cave-men first banded together to enjoy community life, they surely selected some guttural sounds which signified that they were ever ready to defend that newly-formed union. And so in ancient, mediaeval and modern times, each country has had its stirring call to duty. No one can question the power which "La Marseillaise" or even "Deutschland Ueber Alles" have exerted over their respective peoples. The United States of America has selected the "Star Spangled Banner...