The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-04
GLEE CLUB HOLDS
 LARGE AUDIENCE
The University Summer School Is En- tertained With Musical
 Concert.

University, July 3.-(Special.) )-Before the largest audience that has ever gathered at a summer school entertainment the University Glee club rendered pro- gramme that gave diversion and pleasure to everyone, if judgment may be formed from the amount of applause that fol- lowed every song. Owing to the fact that the boys had not sung together for month too much credit cannot be given the director, MT. Tom Garner, and each member of the club for the manner in which the programme was carried through with scarcely a noticeable slip. It is hoped by all who heard the concert | last night that a similar entertainment will be regular feature of each suc- ceeding session of the summer school. The programme, stretched out by en- cores to twice or thrice it's regular length, was selected with discriminating taste for there was song for the grave and the gay, there was negro melody and classical harmony. Among the more diff ficult pieces were "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" "Estudiantina,' and "A Medley From the South,'' while those that seemed to please most were the last named of these selections and the Spell ing Glass;
 This morning at 10:9O MT. A. c. Harte delivered the third of his lecture to an audience that listened to his every word
 His theme was the interesting subject, Jerusalem-History, Legend and Ro- nance" MT. Harte spoke with the same charm of manner and phrase that char acterized his talks Tuesday morning and afternoon, making his listeners not only see but actually feel the beauty of the scenes he described.
 In the beginning he spoke of the physi- cal and climatic conditions of the Holy Land and described 1t with its deep val leys, its blue hills, and gloomy gorges, as land of many charms. His picture of the blue Mediterranean, the golden har- vest fields, and the hay distance as viewed from a high hill, was one that could not be excelled if even eoualled MT Harte said that as you approach Jerusalem, set on the top of a hill like group of statuary it semes to be a city of gold and snow, but that as you come nearer the impression gradually fails until upon entering you find that it has vanished. When he had told of the situation of the city upon the top of one high hill MT. Harte took his hearers round the walls and pointed out the porphyry peg, the tomb of Absalom. the Valley of Gehenna, and the Joppa and Mamascus gates. The last named he said, mellowed and yellowed with age. to him is the most beautiful gateway in the world. In connection with these places, the speaker told a number of in- teresting Mohammedan traditions and cus- toms. He said that though we call these followers of Hahmud heaten, they have qualities, such honorng father and mother, that we might well emulate.
 Passing them within the walls. MT Harte told of the narrow, dirty streets. the method of travelling on donkeys, the diversion of the town into quarters the lack of lights, police, newspapers and street cleaning, the Christian colonly striving to live the Sermon on the Mount the business methods, the beggavs. and tn elepers MT Harte closed with a de- scription of the two noteworthy structures in the city, the church of the Holy Sepul- chre and the Mosque of Omar, the first mentioned being the only Christian church in the world where one may wor- ship the Master as one sees fit. And this, he said, is possible only on account of the presence of Mohammedan troops who preserve peace.