Word: songe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contains more local hits. All the parts are well taken, Schurz, Woodruff, Stone and Rust being especially egective. Perhaps the best thing is the specialty by Schurz and Woodruff, a take-off on "Secret Service." Fenno and Scaife are rather graceful in their dance, and Rust sings a soldier song with very telling gestures...
...vacation are treated in a rather happy vein editorially. The centre picture, "Harvard after dark," by A. K. Moe '97, is a very creditable bit of work in a somewhat different vein from the general run of Lampoon illustrations. The "Constitution of the Guff Club," and "A Hunting Song," the latter presented as an extract from "Ralegh in Guiana," are both clever hits and funny, a statement that cannot truthfully be made of the remaining contributions that make up the number...
...current number of the Advocate, out today, contains matter of a creditable and interesting nature. The poetry is unusually good. Perhaps the best of the short poems is "Through the Mist," by Walter Winsor,- a pleasing and vivid description. "A Song of June," by R. T. Fisher is a charming bit of rhyme, although the subject has long been a well-worn one. "Atlantis," a more ambitious effort by J. F. Brice, is certainly creditable, and would be very good but for its occasional vagaries of metre...
...acting was somewhat unnatural, with too much professional affection as a rule. Mr. Jacob Wendell, Jr., as Young Ralegh was easily the best. His song was enthusiastically encored. Professor Wendell was scarcely to be heard at times and his gestures had little expression...
Although the Freshman Glee Club was slow in organizing at the beginning of the year, the club is now doing fair work and holds two rehearsals a week in preparation for the regular concerts which will be given in May. Seven songs are being practiced: "The Miller's Song," "Schneider's Band," "Johnny Harvard," "Fair Harvard," "Rhine Wine Song," "Watermill," and "Man in the Moon...