Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown university Glee club will start on its western trip December 17. It is probable that a joint concert will be given with the Cornell club at Ithaca...
...temporary refusal of the faculty to allow the Glee club to make a Christmas trip was announced as final yesterday, and so a pleasant custom which was thought likely to become a fixture has been broken almost at the start. The only reason advanced for the refusal was that such a trip as that proposed is contrary to the whole policy of Harvard-that it is not her desire to advertise herself through any one of her organizations. The excuse given is hardly sound, for if the argument were consistently carried out intercollegiate athletics would be entirely abolished...
...true, however, that a Glee club trip is in any proper sense of the word an advertisement. Last year the benefit accrued, and was intended to accrue to the graduates rather than to the college or the members of the Glee club. Those to whom the treat was rarest were Harvard graduates who found it both pleasant and profitable to renew their associations with their Alma Mater, if but for a single evening. They are thereby entitled to recognition, if the Glee club are not; and it is as much on their account as on the account of the Glee...
...action of the amusement committee of the faculty, in refusing to grant the petition of the Glee and Banjo clubs to be allowed to make a Christmas trip, is to be regretted. The work of the clubs last year was extremely creditable. From every point of view the trip was successful, and it is difficult to see how anything but good resulted. The concerts were, in reality. Harvard reunions, giving the graduates in the distant states chances which no other occasions would afford-to renew their love and loyalty for the college by the reawakening of old memories...
...Exeter Academy Glee and Banjo clubs are thinking of taking a trip through the New England states during the holidays...