Word: songs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class will reassemble in front of Holworthy, march through the yard and cheer the college buildings, then to the Tree, where the usual exercises and the singing of the class song will take place...
...SENIORS. The first rehearsal of the Class Song will be held in Boylston Hall, to-morrow evening, at 7.15. The chorister earnestly wishes that every man in the class who can sing may make an effort to be present. The rehearsal will take little more than half an hour if everybody is prompt, and ought not to interfere seriously with anyone's grinding. We all wish the '86 Class Day to surpass the standard of former years, and a little attention from the class is absolutely necessary to make the song an interesting feature...
...Fiske continues his papers on American History by one treating of "The Weakness of the American Government under the Articles of Confederation." Mr. E. P. Evans has a paper on "The Aryan Homestead." Mr. W. J. Stillman contributes "Memories of London." Mr. Maurice Thompson has an article on "Bird Song," and five poems, one by W. W. Story...
...this is changed. Night after night the silence of the yard is unbroken, save by the whistling of some chance passer. The Glee Club saves its energies for more dignified concerts. The great secret societies no longer "sing through the yard." Even within the last four years, student song has entered upon a marked decline. It was no uncommon thing in the spring of '83 to hear a merry chorus from some small knot of men lying lazily on the grass, nor was it thought a source of wonder if the Glee Club gathered on the steps of Holworthy...
...song...