Word: tune
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number is unusually rich in fiction. Besides good installments of "Sweet Bells Out of Tune" and "Benefits Forgot" there are three or four interesting short stories, The Balcony Stories" the best of which is "The Miracle Chapel," "The Professor's Aberration" and others. A very interesting article is "Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log"; it is a collection of whaling stories with a description of the general methods of whaling. An article worthy of the attention of everyone is "A Voice of Russia" by Pierre Botkine, the secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington. In a few words...
...things in the number is the first installment of "Benefits Forgot." It is the long-heralded posthumous novel of Walcott Balestier, who died before he could keep the promises of literary greatness which he made. And more continued fiction is found in Mrs. Harrison's "Sweet Bells out of Tune...
...Glee Club will sing at the game today the verses which follow, to the tune of "Son of a Gambolier." Every one should take a copy of it along with him to the game so that the whole crowd can join in and sing in unison with the Glee Club...
...Holworthy Hall, preceded by the Marshals of the Day, the orators, poet, and odist, marches, about the yard to Sanders' Theatre where the literary exercises of the day take place. There the class oration, ivy oration and the poem are read, and the ode is sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard," the programme being equally divided between the serious and the humorous...
Concerning the work of the organizations as a whole little need be said. The Glee Club sang in good tune and in good time. The Banjo and Mandolin Clubs showed the effect of hard work in the accuracy and precision with which they rendered their part of the programme. The Pierian Sodality played better than usual and its work in this concert can be judged from a much higher musical standard than it is generally safe to apply to it. College musical work always takes because it is college work; the concert last night would have pleased any audience...