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YOUR last issue contained a letter signed "'81," the object of which was to promulgate the existence of a Freshman Glee Club. As a Freshman myself I may say that, while the idea embodied in the correspondence is one that should meet generally with favor, yet the manner in which that idea was set forth is exceedingly distasteful to a large number of Freshmen. We have no desire to compare ourselves yet with the Junior class, and any attempt to do so is certainly ridiculous in the extreme...
...Freshman Glee Club certainly has its advantages, and no doubt it might have been started most successfully had my undexterous classmate troubled himself more about its birth and troubled us less about his "first-rate 2d tenor." As the matter now stands, however, the Glee Club is out of the question; for the members of such a thing would be the laughing-stock of the College after my brilliant friend's effusion...
These remarks are somewhat digressive; all I wish to say is, that, after what has been said here and elsewhere, if a Freshman Glee Club were started, '81 would be pointed at in derision by not only the men in college now, but even by those who will come hereafter...
...crew? There are men among the undergraduates who, assisted by graduates in Boston, could certainly make such a ball a grand success, financially and socially. We commend this idea to their attention. Furthermore, we are by no means sure that the proposed concert in Sanders Theatre, by the Glee Club and Pierian, could not be carried out. In some way or other more money must be raised for the crew than the subscription-list, as it now stands, seems likely to furnish. The amount subscribed on this list (which will be found in the Brevity column) by all classes, except...
...they were getting an immediate return from their outlay. The method of raising money by student entertainments possesses all the advantages of indirect taxes over direct, and we are loath to see this method given up, especially as there seems to be no reason for its discontinuance. If the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality would consent to let the proceeds of their first concert go for the benefit of the Boat Club, if Sanders Theatre could be secured as the place for the entertainment, if the tickets were sold at a low figure and a thorough canvass of the College...