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...rocket choir' of Princeton, 'Rah! Rah! Rah! Ss!-boom-ah!' probably ranks next in point of interest. It sprang up as the result of athletic enthusiasm, first venting itself over some triumph. It certainly is very original and striking...
...even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir, unless their singing immediately improved. It was not surprising, then, that his second field turned out to be orchestral composition, particularly the tone poem, that free vehicle for originality. His melodious yet powerful Don Juan, an early work, remains his most popular tone poem; others, as Thus Spake Zarathustra, probed deep...
...Charles Collens and Henry Pelton are the architects. The inside will be Romanesque, the outside Gothic. Elevators will run up through 20 stories of women's rooms, sewing-rooms, lecture-rooms, schoolrooms, offices in the tower; stairs will go down to robing-rooms, Sunday school rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart to his prime interest in preaching. In the top of the tower, with four new bells, will be the carillon, gift of John...
Professor A. T. Davison '06, Organist and Choirmaster, will lead a large body of singers composed of the regular Appleton Chapel Choir, augmented by 22 members of the University Glee Club. This is the first time since 1910 that these Carol services will be sung by male voices alone. The Radcliffe Choral Soviety will not take part, due to the fact that its members are at present busy with the preparation of Beethoven's Mass, which is to be given in the spring...
Professor Peabody closed the service with a short player, "a prayer of thanks giving and praise." There was no choir. Dr. Davison played briefly on the organ. The Harvard men gathered there sang "The Character of a Happy Life," and "The King of Love my Shepherd is." That was all. President Eliot was never content to sit back and look over the past. He was almost to the very end concerned with the future. This was the spirit of the service...