Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee, the Banjo and the Mandolin Clubs have accomplished not a little on their Western trip, and from all that we can gather from newspapers and other outside sources they did more to impress the public with the true character of Harvard than we had any reason even to hope. The accounts of the concerts in the various cities were always flattering, although much to our amusement, a Chicago paper states that "it is a great pity that there were so few college songs on the programme and so much that was foreign to college life," adding...
...trip was a success socially and financially, and the clubs played to large and enthusiastic audiences, in spite of the fact that in many of the large cities the Yale and the Princeton Glee clubs were competing with them...
...travelling was tedious although the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and Mr. Macdonough (Yale '85), their tourist agent, did everything in their power to make the men comfortable, but the extra cars always made the trains late,- the trip to Chicago took nearly forty-one hours,- and in consequence the schedule was changed several times that the men might reach their destination in time...
...hard for those who did not go on the trip to realize the amount of enthusiasm for Harvard that the clubs created; in Pittsburg it was due to their coming that the Harvard Club of Pittsburg was started, and in one other city they infused new life into a Harvard Club that was "not dead, but sleeping...
...hoped that in the future the clubs will again make their Christmas tour to the West, and keep alive the love of Harvard's graduates for their Alma Mater. The following is a condensed account of the trip...