Word: successful
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...metropolis by a college organization for many years. The audience was enthusiastic from the beginning. The yodels by Mr. Carpenter, the violin solos by Mr. Long-worth, '91, and the bass solos by Mr. Hackett. '91, as well as many of the college songs, received hearty encores. The success most pleasing to the Glee Club was that of the glee "Courtship." The New York audience was the first to recognize the delightful little touches in the glee, and broke out spontaneously before the last bars had been sung. The Banjo club succeeded in winning an encore every time it played...
...would seem as if the time had certainly come when some change should be made in the method of choosing umpires for the annual football contests. It is time that men should be chosen who have no personal interest in the success of either contesting team or of any third team in the Assassin, or else men of sufficient age and experience to be able to divorce what small interest they might have from their action. To come directly to the point, it is time the colleges began to have professional umpires. To this proposal the objection has been raised...
...opening number of the program was Mendelssohn's march. Opus 108, which was rendered by the Pierian Sodality. The Pierian has received many valuable acquisitions in the way of new players, the places of several men whose loss, it was feared, would be a serious drawback to the success of Sodality this year, being filled by new players of unusual merit The march was played with unusual fire and vigor and was received with hearty applause by a very appreciative audience...
...leader of the Glee Club, and which was given for the first time last evening, met with an enthusiastic reception. The solo was well rendered by Mr. Howard. In the place of a quartette which was next on the programme, the "Brahms Lullaby, " which was given with so great success by the Glee Club four years ago, was substituted. The delicate rendering of this difficult piece was a revelation to even the most ardent admirers of the Club; no better singing has ever been heard in Sanders Theatre. The closing song of the group was a "Foot-ball Song...
...whole the concert was a great success, and the general feeling seemed to be that the Glee and Banjo clubs will be able to represent the college in the West in a manner befitting the first university of the country...