Word: songs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition for the best Freshman Class song that will be open until April 6 has been started and all first year men are eligible to compete. The words are all that is to be written. T. F. Mason '30 will write the music when the winning verses have been picked. This song will be sung at the Jubilee and will appear in the Red Book. All competitors should hand their work into James Roosevelt in George Smith A 31. If any further information is desired see either James Roosevelt or T. F. Mason Gore...
This last song in Q Minor is to be sung to the contrapuntal clashing of large glasses filled with Bromo Selzer...
...night in a tent pitched about a mile from Quemados, Cuba, thirsty mosquitoes sang their monotonous whining song; on a cot, Private John R. Kissinger lay awake. It was hot and sticky; he did not slap the stinging pests away. He had volunteered to Dr. Walter Reed, head of the U. S. Yellow Fever Commission, to subject himself to the bites of mosquitoes that had sucked the blood of men ill with the fever; in this way the Commission hoped to find whether the mosquito carried the deadly germ.* He made the offer knowing that his chances for life were...
From the last verse of ECCLESIASTES to the first of the SONG OF SOLOMON is but an eye-skip across the page. Stern Puritans used to say that Solomon's SONG OF SONGS is a book which Christians had better whistle than recite...
Carnegie Hall rang last week, as it does annually, with college songs as they are never sung at college. One after another the glee clubs of a dozen universities filed out on the stage, dropped their chins, eyed their leader and gave vent, first to a song of their own choice, then to the required piece-"The Lotus Flower," it was this year, by Robert Schumann- and last to what newsgatherers love to call an "alma mater." Music Critic Olin Dowries of the New York Times, introduced by Dr. Walter Damrosch, presided over a board of judges which marked...