Word: songe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they finish, Fr. Benedict, the priest of the band, enters with his usual chronic cough, which can only be appeased by a finger or so of rum and no water. He is noted for his power as a singer, and he favors the pirates with the song of the Rover...
...pirates greet this song with a burst of cheers, when a loud crash is heard and they hurriedly conceal themselves...
...costuming and staging was very good but the dialogue was inferior. The songs and the musical selections and the mechanical features, however, combined to make the performance fairly acceptable, while the clever work of several members of the cast, notably Frank Butterworth, the football player, and H. R. Bond, Jr., won repeated encores. The latter caught the audience in a clever song, in which he accounted for Yale's victories in athletics and defeats in debate in a line which ran, "We are men of deeds, not words...
...greater part of the service consisted of music. C. H. Porter, Jr., Div., assisted by the choir, sang H. R. Shelley's "Even Song." D. C. Greene, Jr., '95, and F. W. Thomas L. S., with the choir, sang Sir George Elvey's, "And It was the Third Hour." E. M. Waterhouse '97, sang J. Faure's, "O Salutaris...
...following anthems will be sung by the choir: "And it Was the Third Hour," by Sir George Elvey; Even Song, by H. R. Shelley; "O, Salutaris," by J. Faure. The soloists will be F. W. Thomas, L. S., C. H. Porter, Jr., Div., D. C. Greene, Jr. '95, and E. M. Waterhouse...