Word: slocum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter of Thomas Slocum and that of Francis Rogers relative to the withdrawal of the Harvard Glee Club from the Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest I add my sincere approval. Properly done and at the proper time, without pretext, it is wholly within the right of each of the component clubs to withdraw from the organization. But to wait till the contest is at hand before signifying such intention can be productive only of disarrangement and of justly unfavorable criticism. The reason given, that the composition selected for uniform competition is "of musical inferiority and real musical worth", strikes my ears...
...number of years after Harvard initiated the movement for better choral music in colleges, our Glee Club maintained its supremacy in musical performance, the many graduates, myself among them, shared with Mr. Slocum his regret that it so frankly preferred gloom to glee but in recent years its quality has deteriorated so that now several glee clubs hereabouts have vanquished it in fair combat. Certainly, a healthy sporting spirit would have led it to continue in competition at lest till it had regained its lost laurels...
...John Elberfeld '26, M. M. Green '28, M. W. Hatch '27, H. R. Jones '26, C. T. Lane '26, J. D. Leekley '27, J. S. Malick '27, Richard Meisenbach '28, J. R. McCurdy '28, R. M. Oothout '28, C. J. Rauh '26, A. W. Slocum '28, Captain W. T. Smith '26, and H. D. Stone...
...compose the membership of the Council, including, besides the officers mentioned, C. F. Adams '88, Treasurer of the University; W. C. Boyden '86, of Chicago; D. F. Davis '00, Secretary of War; B. H. Dibblee '99, of San Francisco; T. W. Lamont '92 of New York City; T. W. Slocum '90, President of the Harvard Club of New York; C. C. Stillman '98, and Eliot Wadsworth '98, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...announced his first cut, which leaves 21 men on the squad, as follows: Baldwin, Barbee, Campbell, Combs, Dorn, Eaton, Ehy, Elberfeld, Green, Hatch, Jones, Lane, Leekley, Malick, McCurdy, Meisenbach, Oothout., Rauh Slocum, Captain Smith and Stone. The next cut will be after the Christmas vacation...