Word: songs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University Song as well as a University Club? For there seems to be a strange lack of a college song familiar to all of us. All our gatherings seem incomplete without one. We know how quickly the sympathies of an assembly are awakened by the stimulus of a good chorus. It has the same virtue as a college yell in that each man contributes his part to the common expression, and is conscious of his participation; in fact, the college song is the proper complement of the college cheer...
...propose that all those who have the gift of versification send in a copy of a song to the Editors of the CRIMSON. The song should contain not more than three stanzas, and be set preferably to the air of "Up the Street." The contributions will be placed in the hands of a competent committee, who will select the most fitting for a permanent University song...
...very large audience attended Mr. Copeland's reading from the works of Oliver Goldsmith yesterday afternoon. His first selection was from a "Group of Songs" and included "The Three Jolly Pigeons" and another song originally written for the part of Miss Hardcastle in "She Stoops to Conquer." Mr. Copeland also read Thackeray's Essay on Goldsmith from "The English Humorists," "Bean Tibs at Home," from "A Citizen of the World," "The Haunch of Venison," and passages from "The Deserted Village" and "Retaliation...
...verses in this number though slight is worth while, especially the song just below the editorial and the lines on "The Great Iceland Glacier...
...column presents a decided novelty in the form of a parody of some well known lines on Christmas. The burden of the song is a promise to refrain from punning and to cultivate a higher form of wit. Unfortunately the "swear off" seems to apply only to that particular department. One is tempted to wish that such a healthy reform might be instituted throughout the Lampoon, in all issues to come...