Word: vocal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college course occupies three years, and except in especial cases, no young lady is admitted under eighteen years of age. Candidates for admission are required to pass an entrance examination and furnish a certificate of character. The curriculum embraces: modern languages, classics, mathematics, natural science, moral science, history, and vocal music. The professors of Cambridge have given their services free, and the readings, entertainment's, etc., of the university, with its musical society, are open to students...
...call attention to the "rough" element which appears in the college yard night and day, and it is certainly time that measures were taken to correct this nuisance. The guilty parties are mostly confined to the genus "mucker" who have a most wonderful and varied command of the vocal organs. Indeed some of the sounds that issue forth from the lips of these specimens are astounding and remind one of a large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling over the higher electives...
...Jones has two large divisions of freshmen in vocal culture...
...exhibit of diplomas. Beginning with the next year, seven courses are offered for the undergraduate. Besides the usual subjects, French and German are made prominent. The subjects for all the courses are alike in these particulars: English composition and literature, physical geography, ancient history, French, German, drawing, vocal culture, physical culture, theory of accounts, chemistry of physics or biology, logic, ethics, psychology with lectures on science and literature. All must take these. After that the principal subjects of the seven courses are: 1. Latin, Greek; 2. mathematics, physics; 3. chemistry. biology; 4. physics, chemistry; 5. Latin, mathematics; 6. history, political...
...slight satisfaction of knowing that they are sustaining Harvard's musical reputation in spite of herself? As a matter of fact, there are but five creditable first tenor voices in the university, and only three of these five even are willing to sing. Any one at all acquainted with vocal music must know that this cuts off any increase in the filling of the three other parts. If you wish more basses, furnish more tenors; to do so you must make a position on the Glee Club desirable for all men by showing more interest than that contained in listening...