Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first fifty years of its life the glee club was an adjunct of the banjo and mandolin clubs. Professional coaches were hired to teach members to sing the "Stein Song" and "Down by the Stream Where I First Met Rebecca" and similar pieces...
...help raise the standard of college singing, the HGC published a Harvard Song Book in the spring of 1922, but the Alumni Bulletin was still filled with letters calling for "good rough songs...
Davison cabled the club's resignation from the Intercollegiate Glee Club on the grounds that the selections were "silly sentimental mush" and not in accord with the dignity of any college contest. Chief offender was the prize song, Horatio Parker's "The Lamp in the West...
This was not the first time the HGC went esoteric. Davison had objected to the prize song in 1921, and only agreed to enter the contest that year on the understanding that future prize songs should have every contestant's approval. For the next three years Harvard essentially chose the song...
...first time ever the script and music for "Drumbeats and Song," 'Cliffe's annual Grant-in-Aid Fund production, will be chosen through a competition, Director Gwen Brigham '53 announced last night...