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...noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective was the agitation that three student bodies voted against required chapel in the fall...
There is a stirring meet of ladies and gentlemen on their tall horses to find, chase and kill, with due ceremony, that somewhat mystical reddish mister, Dan Russell the fox, with impudent wisdom seeking sanctuary from a choir of hounds. There is a mighty steeplechase with the bookies hawking odds, the hoofs thundering and two poor jocks killed. There is lambing-time, on the spring hills thinly lit with frost and starlight; and coursing the whippets after Pussy, the dodging hare; and benign old gentlemen in red coats "hacking bitterly at small white balls and saying very evil phrases...
...where surgeon amputated both legs. Next morning four relatives entered his room and a clear tenor voice was raised, singing "Mother Machree." After the last note there was a hush. Cullen's relatives filed out, lips quivering, grief-stricken. Wondering hospital attendants learned that the deceased, trained in a choir, often sang to his family of an evening, had wished to put his ebbing strength into a song of parting, as the wild swans are said...
...said. He would give God ten minutes precisely. . . ten minutes to demonstrate that He existed by striking him, Sinclair Lewis, author, dead where he stood. The people in the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church waited patiently. In the Independence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church a few blocks away, a "golden wedding choir" (men and women who had been married 50 years) was singing "Shall We Gather at the River?" Some of Mr. Lewis's listeners had thought of going to the other church that morning; they wished now that they had gone. "Shall we gather, shall we gather. . ." Perhaps...
Although the club was not as fortunate in its program as in the preceding concerts it unquestionably did the best singing of the season. The tenor choir seemed more robust than at previous hearings this was especially evident in "Out of he Depth I Cry to Thee" by Bach...