The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-29


Chick and Fats and Menly and Skinny
and lot more undergraduate lowbrows
down Princeton way to stick around the
little station platform at Princeton juno
ton day and night now waiting for the
train from New York loaded with the
Princeton lads who last night, In she
grand ballroom of the Waldorf, burst
forth In song in combination with the So
pranos and altos of the Wellesley College
Glee Club In vocal and instrumental
concert OF ecstasy, the first OF Its kind In
college concert history
The fact that the college girls and col
lege boys went through tho programme In
a way that caused applause TO boom and
rattle all over the place, from the hrst
number to the final encore, Will have no
effect upon soulless souls such as Messrs
Fats and Mealy and the rest OF the gang
who even at the moment you read this
probably are waiting hungr1y for their
musical classmates to detrain at Prince
ton Junction.
IL would be just like the gang waiting
for the glee club even TO overlook the fact
that Old Put Putnam. rs Big Lam Hey
niger. 't6 Dud Griffin. Ia Rude Ebcr-
stadt, II. and all the rest OF the glee
and the mandolin clubs Joined with the
concert for the very laudable reason that
Wellesley needs money to rebuild the ad-
ministraton building Of the college burned
down last winter--hence the concert
Nevertheless II would be just like Fats
and his harbarous gang--at least this fear
was fearfully expressed by more than one
of the Princeton songsters during the re-
hearsal with the Wellesley girls yesterday
before the concerto pick on. say, a
poor little lad like Zig Lam Heyniser the
minute he gets off the train.
when They Face the Gang.
Listen. you great big stlffs, Fats's
going to say to us when We get back
whispered scared faced tenor between
numbers yesterday, ION the level Fats II
yell at us, did you guys stand out there
in your soup and tish with lot Of danes
and sing this here, now, piece"
Then Wen sing to our old Wellesicy
To our dear old Hlmu mater, Wellesley
Were together to-day, but tomorrow away,
Far away from our dear Old wellesley"
"'Your dear old alma mater. Wellesley
Gosham ghty, | can hear Fats yellin' that
at us concluded the little Princeton
tenor with a tremulous sigh.
But Lam and Put and Rude and the
rest Of the tenors and basses should
worry! Or-c the combined Wellesley
Princeton Glce Clubs swung into ." Meath
the oaks" which is Wellesley's anthem.
followed Immediately by The Orange ana
the Black" which Of CourS'. Is Prince
toms, the big and bcautcouS audience IN
the grand ballroom rose eNiravagdntly
to the idea that her" was the best college
concert this town has heard.
The Princeton boys gave. take the au-
dences ", I'd for il, the greatest, grand
est. most sllendlferous glve club concert
that audienCa had heard. And on top
of thls-aeaiu taking the audiences word,
and tho audience ought to knuw--th-
Wellesley gills gave a concert twice as
good as that
The trouble with Fats and his low
brow gang left behind al Princeton is
doubtless that some Of the t1undei- of
applause which greeted the singers last
night / He'd al the way down to Nassau
, vile. Also. this Wellesley Glec club. all
d,clled out in their fIssy ftocks, were AS
easy to look At as 10 listen 10. And there
was dancing after the concert too Fats 5
gang IL jealous that's all
! The excitement really began ut the
Joint rehearsal yesterday forenoon. This
matter of big crowd If college x rls
troopiug happily into the Waldorf to join
/ forces and .ehearse not with one but with
] whole crates Of college boys arrayed like
. clothing ads I'm the magazine advert sing
pages Is not daily occurrence among
/ college gi;ls.
1t doesn't happen To us at Wellesley
every day, ut least" said the smallest
gil tncv,r mind the name) among the
All : the one with the white band around
her black hat. the dark morning gown
and the dainty shoes with the gray
spats.