Word: songful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...evening recently, some twenty men attended a professor's "at home," and following an instrumental duet by two of them, it was suggested that all join in singing "something that everybody knew." But it seemed there was almost no song which everybody knew, and after a pathetic rendering of "Oh You Beautiful Doll" and "The Ragtime Violin," somewhat more successful assaults were made on the football songs. It is little wonder that, after a dismal rehearsal of "Fair Harvard," the professor commented sadly upon the inability of Harvard students to sing...
...Adams contributes also "A Bird's Song in the Meadow," a lyric with a music of its own and sometimes of positive charm. The other poetical offerings do not rise appreciably above the level of Monthly verse. In both prose and verse there is on the whole a reassuring absence of pose, and a true play of that "amateur spirit" which is one of the best symptoms in any periodical. M.A. DE WOLFE HOWE...
...Music from "Coppelia," Delibes 6. a. Palge's Horse, D. C. Bartlett '03 Organ, C. E. Lamson '99. b. Amherst Alma Mater, J. S. Hamilton '06 c. To the Fairest College, D. C. Bartlett '03 Organ, C. E. Lamson '99. 7. Selection, "The Pink Lady," Caryll 8. a. Stain Song, Bullard b. Lord Geoffrey Amherst, J. S. Hamilton '06 9. Selection, "The Quaker Girl," Monckton 10. Reve Angelique, Rubinstein Organ, Mr. Marshall. 11. Waltz, "The Beautiful Blue Danube, "Strauss 12. March, "El Capitan," Sousa
...winning ways, Our donkey and our mascot Will great your ardent gaze. It is her first appearance, Come cheer her loud and strong. She'll be on the stage in the baseball cage, And you can bet she'll be all the rage When she sings her siren song And don't forget to buy your hats On sale from nine to one. In Thayer Hall three you'll find they'll be They're white and green and awfully squee For twenty and worth the mon. And also seven to seven thirt. Before the big parade Which starts...
...America, as an example, Professor Spalding cites a number of musicians of wide reputation who graduated from the University. Francis Boott '31, who, at his death, left a fund of $10,000 for the establishment of the prize which now bears his name, was university known as a song writer. John Knowles Paine '69, the well-known composer, founded the department of Music here. Of men still living he cities 19 composers, graduates of Harvard, who have a national reputation, among whom are men as distinguished as Arthur Foote '74, G. A. Burdett '81 and F. S. Converse '93. Among...