Word: songs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...competition to choose songs to be sung at the Yale football game on November 20, starts today. All members of the University are urged to compete. Contestants should remember that such songs need a good swing, limited range, and sensible words, to make them effective. Songs should be sent to F. L. Foster, Holworthy 17, under an assumed name, before noon on November 1. The real name of the composer, together with his assumed name, should be sent in a sealed envelope to the Harvard Song Committee, Holworthy...
Even at this late date a football song competition can be made of real advantage if men of musical ability will give time to the composition of effective tunes and appropriate words. Most of the songs which we now have are the product of former competitions of the same sort, and though they are excellent, there is a real need for several new songs of singable quality...
Francis Barton Gummere, a delegate from Haverford College; a man of letters with a command of literature profound and wide; delightful writer on the origin of English poetry, whose love of song has made the history of song more lovely...
...Herbert 2. Overture, "Light Cavalry," Suppe 3. Waltz, "Girls from Baden," Komzak 4. Selection, "Merry Widow," Lehar 5. Ballet Music from "Faust," Gounod 6. Menuet, Bolzoni 7. Selection, "Carmen," Bizet 8. Invitation to Dance, Weber-Berlioz 9. Overture, "Patrie," Bizet 10. "Reve Angelique," Rubinstein 11. Waltz, "Wine, Women, and Song," Strauss 12. March Persian, Strauss
...what is more difficult--how to obey. It taught patriotism and the appreciation of liberty, not unbridled license, but that liberty which recognizes obedience. It taught the earth that the American flag is not just a piece of bunting which can be bought at any time for a song, but that it is the emblem of dignity and power of a great Republic, which can never be insulted but millions will spring to its defence...