Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anyone who maintains that the Harvard man is not proud, or unenthusiastic or indifferent; the singing at Saturday's game was a striking example. The proportion of strangers to students was approximately ten to one, and while each student was willing to support the band, he was unwilling to sing alone before ten strangers. This commendable modesty asserted itself when the band suddenly stopped playing without the warning of even half a cadence. The voices of the singers died in their throats and the hushed cheering section laughed good-naturedly at their own discomfiture...
Last Saturday, what singing there was was good, but only one man out of forty in the cheering sections participated. Songs and Cheers to "get across" must be rehearsed. Undergraduates are inclined to take it for granted that because the University has good songs they will more or less sing themselves. The result is ludicrous, until after repeated prodding, something is done and there is a semblance of organization at the Yale game...
During the playing of football songs, a few people started to sing; but the scattered attempts failed. When a university has as fine a collection of songs as Harvard has and when excellent music is provided, why not sing? But disorganized singing is as ineffectual as a hen without a head; it gets nowhere. Reflecting what was clearly the sentiment of the cheering section, we repeat what someone shouted at Saturday's game "Bring on a song-leader...
...Milliken colleges. The clubs of the federation will compete in a joint contest concert in Chicago during the winter. The club winning this contest will journey to New York in March and compete with the winner of the eastern intercollegiate corporation contest. In the latter contest each club will sing three songs...
...gently undulating hills where the clouds bank up behind the old stone towers, and where the little streams go down to the rivers and the rivers down to the sea. Where on sunny days the Pyrenees can be seen rising above the haze to the south, where the peasants sing in their rippling patois...