Word: tunes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words for the hymns should be set to some familiar tune such as "Integer Vitae" or "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand...
Then the orchestra began to tune up, just as if it were talking over the pieces it was to play, as children sometimes talk all together, at recess. Two taps, and Mr. Schelling began to wave his magic baton. First they played Chopin's A Major Polonaise, and you could imagine people dancing to it. Then they played Bach's beautiful Air for G String, and Scipione Guidi, concert master, showed what rich tones could come from a violin...
Somehow there always seems to be a plot. In this instance, it is concerned with the progress of an orphan girl to the ultimate in feminine success?for-tune and a husband. The presence of a few execrable jokes may be condoned owing to the profusion of legitimate risibility. A prospective song hit, Going Rowing, completes the entirely satisfactory exhibit...
...college civilizations were in rivalry. In scholarship and debate aristocracy triumphed, but in physical contest democracy won. Then it was that the Hogans, Hefflefingers, and Hinkeys rolled the Hallowells, Newells, and Cabots in muddy defeat while illiterate undergraduates worked themselves into frenzy chanting ill selected words set to the tune of the Prussian national hymn...
Contestants have the option of submitting either verses fitted to a familiar tune or both original words and music. Since the announcement did not limit the contest to members of the School of Education alone, presumably any one may enter...