Word: songs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evening meeting was public, and was held in Appleton Chapel, being called at about quarter past seven. Fifteen minutes was given to a song service, and then followed addresses by Mr. H. M. Moore, and Mr. Clifford, of London. Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., was to speak, but was unable to be present. A letter, however, from Dr. McKenzie was read at the meeting...
...more space within the precincts. Precisely at five o'clock in the afternoon, the long procession begins to wind its way from the buttery up the centre of the Hall towards the high table. In front, the Boar's head is borne aloft, while the choir give the old song, "The boar's head in hand I bring, bedecked with rue and rosemary." S. Black, of Queen's, undertook the solo, which he rendered very well. We believe His Grace the Archbishop of York on one occasion bore the same part. The ceremony concludes with the distribution of holly...
...kneels at his inamorata's shrine when first he wakes; and at the solemn hours of mid-night he flats a few sweet notes as the last strain of his farewell serenade before he goes to bed, or in the early morning he chirps out his cheerful clear-toned song to tell his fellow birds that he is up. He must be deaf; for surely he cannot hear the beloved yodel say-"not this eve," each time he passionately offers himself. He continues unceasingly to offer himself, and all around him, living sacrifices on the altar of his divinity...
Gentle, though erring prophet, the answer is because the 22d of February will come this year upon Sunday, and as the song tells us that "Every day will be Sunday bye and bye," we can confidently look forward to the time when the birthday of the another of that beautiful American fiction. The tale of the little hatchet, will be regularly observed by the college authorities...
...legitimate and proper object of all manner of "cussing," in dignity and torture. He was hazed. He was smoked out. He was dragged from his bed and given the pump bath. He was caused to mount his table and entertain his visitors with unspontaneous oratory, narrative and song. All these acts of discipline were performed, if not with acquiescence by the faculty, certainly with impunity...