The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-12-24

/ ana informal parties always the OUT
come Of the holiday season are all
charmingly planned. The college boys
and girls are horne for the vacation,
some having brought schooI-mates with
them.
With the college students again here
the coming of the Wesleyan University
: Glee Club will be doubly enjoyable and
the Carroll Club will be tested to Its ut
most capacity next Thursday evening If
the ladies' OF st. Matthew's Parish
Guild would make arrangements for n
Thursday matinee and do away with
the evening performance, thereby Civ
ing the ladies' and gentlemen In the cast
as well as the management OF the "Ben
Hur" performance a chance to hear a
club which sings unusually well. A
ben HuT" matinee would also be In
the interest of the charity as many par
ents regretted that no opportunity was
given the children at the recent hospit-
al performance. and would gladly avail
themselves of this chance to see a thor
oughty interesting and beautiful enter
tainment. while all the older portion OF
the community VIII quickly place itself
on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
The coming Ben Hur" performance
Will be. as It deserves. enthusiastically
supported, but sympathy in this move
ment for n twO-nIghvs and Thursday
matinee performance, Is universal
Everybody likes college boys and coll
lege songs. Wesleyan University IA
small and young in comparison with
Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and has
ca wv q tins tn nd 80 -
country that Its name is not very well
known here. But football enthusiasts
will recognize the qlee club as coming
from the college whose team stands
sixth among colleges OF this country.
next to the big Four" and Cornell and
they or any others who have heard a
Wesleyan concert know that this club
can sing. Nothing represents the coll
lege atmosphere to outsiders quite 80
well as the college songs OF the many
New England glee clubs four are easily
superior to the others. those from FTar-
ward, Yale. Wesleyan and Amherst
The most difficult music Is rendered by
the Harvard and Wesleyan clubs, and
the most lively jolly, real college songs
ara sung By the Yale and Wesleyan
boys, so that the concert Thursday
night ought to please both the thorough
musicians and the college enthusiasts.
Throughout the fall the clubs practice
an hour daily under professional In
structIOn and Just before Christmas two
rehearsals day are insisted upon to
bring the ensemble work to the utmost
precision. The clubs have a large re-
pertolre and It is not unusual to have
two or three encores required after
each number. The young gentlemen
comprising the organization are: A. r.
Goodrich. T. B. Young. d. G. Wllletts,
A. w. Stark. first tenor; R. +. NivIscn.
T. s. Cline. W. G. Harris, II. y. Terrell,
second tenOc; A. y. Burdick, c. r.
Smith, II. V. Nation. C. P. Price. first
bass: a. H. Browne. P. A. Parsons, r.
II. Jones. T. II. Montgomery. second
bass, with Clarence Robertson Smith as
leader. and W. b. Hinkley, r. w. Lang
ford, S. B. Hoyt, first mandolin; A. B.
Al0rO. II L. Bagenstone, second mando-
lin; C. r. Johnston, nandoln A n,
Tasker, cello: a. ". Browne, flute; A.
L. Cooper and C. G. SticlSney, guitar.
with William Brainard HInkley as lead
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