Word: sings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are many men in the college who have not the time or the ability necessary to become members of the Glee Club. No opportunity is ever given to these men to sing the many excellent songs which are a part of every Harvard man's inheritance. A half-hearted effort is made to turn men out for the Freshman Hall choruses, but the sense of compulsion and the feeling of systematized noise-making which is usually present in the choruses militates against appellation on of the songs or pleasure from sinning them. During the football mass meetings one kind...
...Glee Club published a couple of years ago many of the best of the Harvard songs. Few Harvard men sing these, and almost no one in the College knows the many good songs which have not been published for many years. These songs are among the best which have ever been turned out for male voices; and they are closely bound up with the traditions which play so large a part in making Harvard what it is today...
...might be argued from this that Harvard men are not musically inclined. But everyone knows this is not so. Students who haven't time to devote to the Glee Club are afforded an opportunity to learn and sing Harvard songs for the love of singing them. Now that the need is made manifest, the Union should step into the breach and provide this opportunity heretofore lacking. It should arrange for informal gatherings under the direction of a competent leader. Students would go to them for no other reason than because they wanted to go, and would spend an hour singing...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Lake Placid Club has never attempted complete fonetic spelling as yu report (TIME, Apr. 20, P. 16) but it does omit many useless and misleading letters as needed pioneer work. The ending of sing, bring, etc., is neither n, g, nor any combination of n and g, but a simple sound which skolars the world over for almost a century hav represented by a taild...
...Pauls, and places where they sing...