Word: glee
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first concert last evening in Sanders Theatre by the Harvard Glee Clug on their new basis of singing fine music in a thoroughly artistic way, among the many causes for satisfaction and mutual congratulation one aspect of the occasion was most striking--it "jumped into one's eyes," as the French say--namely, the fact that the undergraduate body was so conspicuous by its absence...
Harvard men can always be relied upon for a spirit of fair play and generous co-operation, and they will rest under a serious indictment if, at the subsequent concerts which are to be given by the newly organized Harvard Glee Club they do not testify to their approval of the fine work of the Glee Club and the splendid leadership of Dr. Davison by actually attending the concerts and having the satisfaction of knowing that, not only are they enjoying some excellent music beautifully sung, but are supporting one of the most significant movements for the broad development...
Beside the throng of members of the profession now in Boston who are to be present, the University football team and the Radcliffe Glee Club have also expressed their intention of attending the ball...
...ought to be good news to the musical public in Boston and in Harvard University that the Harvard Glee Club is planning a season in which the new standards which have been set up for college singing in Cambridge will be so clearly illustrated. Boston has always owed much to Harvard for its best music. The Harvard Musical Association, founded by Harvard men who wanted to preserve the musical interests which the Pierian Sodality had awakened in them, established more than fifty years ago the orchestral concerts to which, in a natural sequence, the concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...floods of rag-time and jazz are to sweep away all the dikes of protection against them, they will begin their work with the music-makers of the younger generation. They might easily prevail in this community were the programs of the Harvard Glee Club given over to the modern equivalents of "Upidee." It is entirely reassuring, therefore, to see the selections that have been chosen for the first concert--and to know that Dr. Davison, who practices good music as effectively as he preaches it, is to conduct them all. Lovers of the best choral music well sung will...