Word: songe
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...CLASS SONG.- All seniors who would like to write words for the class song are requested to communicate with the chorister, K. McKenzie...
Just across from the old Washington elm stands a large brick building known as the Fay House, once occupied by Edward Everett. Here in a small front room many years ago Mr. Gilman composed the song so dear to us all, "Fair Harvard." The property has passed into the hands of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, and is now known as the Annex...
...Plain song of the Roman Church was composed within the diatonic scale of alternate tones and hemitones which had been the invention of the Greek race. In the modes, as they were called, of this church music, different notes of the diatonic scale held the position of expectancy. The multiple melody of the Polyphonic style which was the first form assumed by concerted music in Europe, being composed in one or other of these modes gave to either one or other of the notes A C D E F or G (modes in B being unused) the place of tonic...
There are three poems: "Lost Love," "Labrador," and an "Autumn Wedding-Song." The last might perhaps be selected as the best, though the others are good...
...will continue its work among the sailors. Every Sunday morning two bands of four or five men each leave the Lawrence Scientific School about nine o'clock, and taking a boat go on board the different ships in the harbor. They usually meet with a hearty welcome. After holding song services they distribute magazines and papers among the sailors, and Testaments to those who haven't them. The sailors usually extend a cordial invitation to come again, but as the purpose is to disseminate as widely as possible the tracts and Testaments, this invitation is rarely excepted...