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APPLICANTS for the College Chapel Choir will find Professor Paine any afternoon in Boylston Hall...
...chapel choir's singing is like drift-wood floating on a stream - it drags on the bars, but don't amount to a dam. - Princetonian...
...interesting sights came the pet of the whole show, - the baby elephant. It was named "Prayers," and was regarded as the spoilt child of the University. Fear-of-Public-Opinion bolstered its tottering steps on one side; rigid penalties - including suspension - performed this graceful office on the other. A choir - of one feeble-voiced, hired youth - walked in front, enticing it on by singing melancholy hymns. Altogether, it was a forlorn-looking creature...
...have yet to learn what there is about the auditorium of Appleton Chapel that so effectually robs men of their voices. Surely, after so many statements, it cannot have failed to be understood by all that the choir was formed simply and solely to act as lead for the others in the singing; that it sings in unison, so that all who attend prayers may join with it in unisonous singing, which is easy and effective; and that tunes are selected which (for the most part, at least) lie within range of all voices. It is absurd to suppose that...
THIRTY-TWO men sing in the College choir...