Word: throngã
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...explain. “Fair Harvard” is a delightful hymn describing the excitement of Commencement day. The original language (“thy sons to thy jubilee throng??) indicates that students, admittedly male students, are “thronging” to the “jubilee” of Harvard graduation. The easiest reading of the new verse presents an obvious grammatical problem: “We join in thy jubilee throng,” is essentially saying “we come together at your jubilee.” This complete statement then leaves...
...Well-meaning critics may propose that there is no grammatical problem and the new verse’s object is in fact “throng?? rather than “jubilee.” If this is true, these critics only have succeeded in crafting a grammatically correct, but awkward sentence as they change “throng?? from a verb to a noun. I am not exactly sure what a “jubilee throng?? is, jubilee being the adjective apparently, but I am sure they can convolute some meaning into...