Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During its extended concert tour last week the Glee Club sang a great deal of noteworthy music. But undoubtedly the high point of the trip, from a musical standpoint at least, was the joint program with Vassar. This opened with Bach's Magnificat, following which the Glee Club sang palestrina's Supplicationes and Psaume 121 sang Milhaud. Next came Vassar's rendition of Andre Caplet's Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and the two choruses joined again in O Vos Omnes by Vaughn Williams. For the climax of the concert E. Harold Gear conducted Zoltan Kodaly's beautiful Te Deum, written...
Returning to Japan after a four-month tour of the U. S.,Haruko Ichikawa, Japanese author (Japanese Lady in Europe), announced in Tokyo: "American women are proud and arrogant. The men are timid before them to the point of foolishness...
Although they were accused of being highbrow and having a Hah-vahd accent when they faced Scranton, three members of the Debating Council had an otherwise successful Spring tour last week, in which they faced unusually large audiences between Jersey City, N. J. and Williamsburg...
...sole flaw in the tour was the defeat suffered at the hands of the University of Scranton, where ex-Mayor Durkan of Scranton swung a 2-1 judges' decision against Harvard on the accusation of it being highbrow and having a hah-vahd accent...
Kaspar has none of the bashfulness of a Milquetoast. When he is complimented on speaking English well, he explains: "I picked it up on my travels." His English had its stiffest test when, on his way back from an Australian tour, he was asked to explain skating to a Ceylon reporter who had never seen ice except in highballs...