Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a title such as "Choral Society," the present Glee Club would receive full credit for its artistic success, without leaving the trail of active antagonism which followed in the wake of its Christmas tour this year...
...could only be achieved after such pioneers as Edward MacDowell and others literally died of broken hearts because of the hopelessness of their cause. Stubbornness, born of an innate intellectual complacency, is one of the hall-marks of the typical college professor, and it takes a mighty jolt to wake him into a state where he can see beyond the rim of his text books...
...quite a jump from D. T. McCord's "The Ups and Downs of Skiing," to Mr. R. Emerson's "Religion--Past, Present, and Future." After a brief, dizzy excursion into space we wake up in bed to find only one limb out of a possible four functioning properly. Then Mr. Emerson comes along and prescribes a rather ambitious, eloquent, inaccurate order of Religion. We refuse to swallow...
Still another was added to the long list of annual "reviews of revues" last Monday night, when "Vogues and Vanities" appeared at the Majestic Theatre. Far from following in the generally tedious wake of those super-vaudevillian productions, however, this new musical hodgepodge proves to be a diverting first cousin of the "Follies," and aided by a substantial number of star comedians, succeeds in keeping the audience in an alternating state of genuine laughter and applause...
Among the tunes, the most popular were "Hold Me" and Romantic Blues," sung by Miss Oakland, and "I'd Love to Fall Asleep and Wake Up in My Mammy's Arms," by Flo Burt. Of especial interest to Harvard men is the "Labor Agitator," introduced with fine effect in last year's Pudding show by F. M. Trainer '19, and here sung by John T. Murray...