Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-20

Glee Club
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was a common sign on the bulletin
boards at Smith College last week, for the
event Of the year, the annual ,glee club
concert, came off Wednesday night
Time was when three concerts were
given each year, but now the pleasures
| of the three have to be condensed into
one. AS the concert Is an event around
Which cluster teas, house parties, dances
and minor social functions, the gay and
giddy air which Northampton assumes
and the feminine f1utter not to mention
/ frills and furbeqows, that prevails can
easily be guessed. @a
But, alas! the walls of the academy OF
music are built Of brick, not of india
rubber. and only half the college were
able to obtain tickets This was simply
awful for the girls WHO had their men
all invited, and what the poor things
did is best left to the imagination AS
| 1t was, many stood the concert out IN
the corridors, but who will maintain
that even so theirs was not an enviable
lot?
1t may be added that the glee club,
which won general praise for its singing,
hits and that the mandolin club has
been enlarged and improved by the adj
dition of a harp.
Mr. Wulf Fries, the veteran 'cellist,
Mr.. B. A. Barber. baritone, and Mr.. A.
w. Knowlton, violinist. of Boston, will
be the assisting artists at Mr.. Morses
recital Thursday evening, in ASsocia-
ton Hall. The piano numbers of the
program will be played by Mr. Morse,
who will thus afford his friends much
desired opportunity to hear him play.
About 80 of the friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. s. L. Shaw assembled at their res
idence, SO Chandler street, Friday eve
ming, to help them celebrate the 25th an
niversary Of their marriage.
The guests left beautiful dinner set
and silverware as a token Of their re-
gard. The presentation speech was made
by Mr. Charles Shaw.
Mr.. Henry T. Bailey, well known in
Worcester as a lecturer on color, school
room decoration etc, sailed for Naples
en- route to the Orient, on the Kaiser
Wilhelm II, Saturday
The friends of Miss Sailie White met
at her home, Sc Orange street, Friday
evening, and presented her with a sill
yer bracelet. The present alton speech
was made by Miss Grace Woodhead
During the evening piano solos were
given by the Misses Addie and Eleanor
Dibble, Misses Nealy, Woodhead La
reau and White. William Devine and
Ralph Handlin sung.
1t was just LOS Sunday morning when
the brazen-thpoated whistle at the gas
works belched forth a series of hoarse
groWls that reused the startled populaee
from their slunbers.-Speneer Sum.
Mrs. j. Edwin Smith and Miss Smith
gave tea Saturday afternoon for Miss
Maud Reese Davies. the pretty soprano
now singing with Sousa's band.
Notwithstanding the rain Saturday.
there was large attendance at. Rev,
Dr.. MoXom's third Browning lecture in
Memorial Hall, the audience including
several We'll known men as we'll as the
Browning class and members OF the
W omen's Club. The lecture was upon
the three poems, "Cleon, . "a Grammar.
lan.s Funeral" and Rabbi Ben Ezra
and the treatment was like that of the
preceding lectureS-explanatio of and
comment upon the poem, followed by a
wonderful reading of It, This time a.
brief clear-cut comparison Of the three
poems concluded what was in the esti-
nation of many the richest of the three
lectures that DR.. Moxom has given ing-
Worcester
Upon such poems" said DR.. Moxom,
o on yar,, 1f,rr
airy is silence" Perhaps; and yet his
own comments upon them were most
helpful
In "Cleon," he said among other
things, Browning has used the word
soul in the pagan sense, as meaning
the higher life. 1t is intellectual. aes-
thetic, self-conscious, but has not the
deeper sense which is now attached to
it. Cleon is a pagan poet, highly cult
waited, thinking seriously on life and yet,
after all his earnest speculation viewing
progress as failure and deciding that
there can be neither completion nor hope
in this life. He looks out upon the world
with a profound pessimism, seeing moth
ing in the future to which he can trust
for there is no future life. If there had
been one, Zeu5 in his goodness would
have let men know 1t. DIR. MoXom COM
pared the passage in which this idea is
eXpressed-the salts est vixisse" of the
pagan world-with those words of Jesus
I'm my Fathers house are many man
sions; If it We're not so, 1 would have told
YOU" Yet, just at the end of the poem
Browning strikes that dramatic note Of 1
hope, Of escape, which appears in Saul
and in all his deepest works
Before analysing the situation in "A
Grammarian's Funeral" Dr. Moxom
drew attention to the peculiar technical
structure of the poem, pentameters and