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...Varsity Glee Club is doing hard work in preparation for engagements already made for the last of this month and the first of March. From this on indefinitely, rehearsals will be held three times a week. The old song "Rhine Wine" which has always been so popular as an opening chorus will be taken up again together with the "Northman's Song" which has not been sung since the spring of ninety-one. The Club has among its new candidates several excellent voices, and the prospects for good work this spring are at present very bright. The men are taking...
...followed by a longer prayer of much fervor. The poem was then read and the singing club, accompanied by a band, contributed a song. The valedictory completed the programme, and in stately procession the class escorted the officers of the college to the President's house, where refreshments - wine, cake, and lemonade - were served. The afternoon was spent in drinking punch and dancing on the green. In 1826 the graduating class was escorted to its exercises by the famous Harvard Washington Corps. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was poet of the class '29. The following extract from a diary...
...class assembles in front of Holworthy Hall and headed by the class chaplain marches to Appleton Chapel, where prayer is offered by one of the preachers to the University. Then the class takes breakfast with one of the officers, where the milder stimulus of coffee does duty for the wine and punch of earlier days...
...Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song," Strauss...
...Farce entitled "Wine is a Mocker" is as good a piece of dialogue as there has been in the Advocate in some time. The unnecessary coarseness of the tipsy Mr. Ransom in his conversation with Miss Ames one feels to be bad art. It breaks unpleasantly through the playful treatment which to that point had carried the story, and implies a complication unnecessary to the climax. The picture of Mr. Ransom at the piano is capital, however, as is the exposure of Miss Ames. Although the combination of the sister and stranee chum in the brother's room while...