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...wish to voice a sentiment which is strongly held by many graduates with reference to the variety of music presented by the Harvard Glee Club. With all respect to Dr. Davison and the members for the splendid results achieved, we feel that the Glee Club is not a glee club but a choral society and should be named accordingly, and that a real glee club should exist to sing the college songs which most people expect and want to hear when they attend a glee club concert. We have repeatedly heard this same opinion expressed by non-Harvard people...
...would be a splendid thing if the proposed trip of the Harvard Glee Club to France were carried through. In the old countries they are accustomed to hold 'singing fests', and the introduction of an American glee club would make a novel contrast to these groups. A young college aggregation especially would be sure to contain great interest to the average foreigner...
...gained throughout the country, is evident not only in the colleges and schools in which units have been established; but also in the attitude of the general public and the members of Congress toward it. Contests has from the beginning given this branch of Military Training splendid backing, both by appropriations and by moral support, and it seems likely that the appropriations asked for at present will be granted...
...maintains self-supporting branches in the Graduate and Law Schools, and also in the Medical and Dental Schools in Brookline, where work similar to that done in Cambridge is carried on. It seeks to bring prominent speakers to Harvard, not in any sense to rival the Union's splendid program, but rather to bring to the University men who are interested in religion or philanthropic work. Some of the speakers this year have been Mr. Joseph Lee, Dr. Harry E. Fosdick, Mr. Roger Babson, Dean Charles R. Brown, Judge George W. Anderson, Dr. S. M. Crothers and Dr. Grenfell...
...modern world. I am always reminded of and quote the words of my friend, the poet William Yates, who has spoken of the 'vast wave of ignorance that spreads from our schools.' Personally, I believe that all good culture descends from father to son. Modern education breaks into this splendid chain by starting new and unnecessary ideas. The parent on the other hand, knows nothing bad. Of course I realize that most persons think of the parent as some sort of a chimpanzee incapable of teaching anything; I simply disagree with those persons, that...