Word: songe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee Club has offered a prize of ten dollars for the best humorous song written by a student...
...Invalid" by E L. Bynner. Other noteworthy articles in this number are "George William Curtis and Civil Service Reform" by Sherman S. Rogers, and "Penelope's English Experiences" by Kate Douglas Wiggin. The only poetry of the number "To a Wild Rose Found in October" is a pretty little song with just a touch of the serious...
...style, but it is rambling and not pointed; a "first paper" on Cardinal Newman is scholarly but somewhat lifeless; and the "story" of the number is a delicate character-sketch, but lacks a visible cause for existence. The verse is much better than the prose, however, especially the "battle song" by Herbert Bates, ('90). It is to be hoped that so good an innovation as a "graduate poem," so to speak, will be continued. The editorial on the growth of the college is reasonable, and just...
...Before the Battle," by Herbert Bates is a war-song, strong and quick, to the very soul. It has all the power that characterized the work by the same author in the years before his graduation...
...solo by S. H. Farwell, was especially pleasing. It is needless to say that the singing of J. A. Wider in "The Debutante" was as capital and inimitable as ever, and as usual took with the audience. His singing is one great attractive feature of the club and this song showed him decidedly at his best. He fills admirably the position which Jack Wendell held and the enthusiastic applause he received was well merited. He was encored several times. Upon the whole the singing of the club was excellent, and when the club had fully warmed up to the occasion...