Word: songe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mandolin Clubs will give a concert for the benefit of the class crew in Brattle Hall, this evening at eight o'clock. All these clubs have taken great pains with their practice, and the concert promises to be a success in every way. For the Glee Club a song has been written by one of the freshmen, and set to some of the Obispah music. The program is given below...
...management of the Yale Glee Club offers two prizes of $15 and $5 for the best words of a humorous song describing some phase of Yale undergraduate life...
...Camberlain lectured in Sever Hall last night on the "Song-birds of New England." He said: Nearly all of our common birds are included in the division of Oscines or singers. Oscines stand at the head of the classified list of birds as naturalists have decided that they are the most perfectly organized physiologically. We have about 350 species of birds in New England, which may be divided into five classes; first, those that remain with us all the time; second, those that come to us from the south in summer; third, those that come from the north in autumn...
...several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty. Our birds are rather more retiring than English birds and usually sing only in the morning, while English birds of necessity haunt open fields and moreover sing all the day long...
...singers are members of twelve families, but most of them are included in the finches, warblers, thrushes, and vireos. Of these the thrushes are by far the best singers, and best of all perhaps is the song of the hermit thrush. The hermit's song is not intrusive or passionate but is like some grand hymn, rising pure and clear from the depths of the forest. Other fine singers are the brown thrush, the purple finch, and the winter wren. Most of the singers are finches. As a rule these are small and insignificant, but there are some brilliant exceptions...