Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Pierian Sodality will pay tribute to Malcolm Holmes '28, retiring head of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, at a dinner tonight at the Faculty Club, which will be attended by Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra members. Miss Brockway said of Holmes, "Mal has kept a unity of spirit among us. We have enjoyed working with him both musically and socially...
...greeting to Charles Copeland on his 90th birthday invokes so many memories of personal friendship and public benefaction, so much of the spirit of the older and more humanistic Harvard, that the pen falters. All that he taught was precisely yet warmly of the best. No inference in the tremendous Harvard of my day drew its light from purer sources of diffused it more generously...
...with serious qualms about the furtherance of Joint Instruction might do better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about so trivial a matter produced the same effect...
...glees, a canon, and a catch, accompanying its singing with stage actions such as shrugged shoulders and waving forefingers. This organization claims descent from the original Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club (1761) which punished sour notes by making the offender drink a glass of wine. "It is this spirit," the present group's leaders note, "which the 'Adams House Catch Club' has attempted to recapture...
Aphorisms in the songs further demonstrate this spirit; Thomas Curtis' True Britton did "haste to the bottle and joyously sing," Joseph Baildon philosophized" Tis better to lie drunk than dead," and Thomas Arne's dilemma was "Which is the Properest Day to Drink...