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In 1893 the senior class of the Law Department resolved to imitate its name-sake of the college by issuing an annual. This was called To Wit:, and it appeared in the spring of 1894. It was an exceedingly neat volume of 238 octavo pages bound in cloth- boards. Among the principal features of the book were a care- fully annotated roll of the 289 members of the class, full accounts of the different fraternities, literary societies, club courts, and other organizations of the law school, portraits and sketches of the members of the Faculty, and a list of " Representative Alumni ". The editors were the following:
C. A. Denison, '94 l, E. D. Babst, '94 7, O. 'E. Scott, '94 l, B. F. Wollman, '94 l, F. C. Kuhn, '94 l,
E. W. Sims, '94 l, G. W. Fuller, '94 l, C. A. Park, '94 l, Eugene Batavia, '94 l, H. C. Walters, '94 l.
In 1895 and again in 1896 the senior law class published an annual, but the name adopted in each year was Res Gestae. Both books were very creditable. The editorial boards were:
1894-95-D. F. Lyons, '95 7, J. W. Bingham, '95 l, W. M. Wheeler, '95 l, W. O. McNary, '95 l, S. C. Hubbell, '95 l, W. A. Keerns, '95 l, C. B. Henderson, '95 l, W. W. Wedemeyer, '95 l, H. G. Hadden, '95 l, Lucien Gray, '95 l, J. V. Rosencranse, '95 l, T. F. Doyle, '95 l.
1895-96-H. R. Marlatt, '96 7, E. S. Ferry, '96 l, C. S. Turnbaugh, '96 Z, R. J. Covert, '96 1, J. T. Harrington, '96 Z, D. B. Cheever, '96 l, H. Y. Saint, '96 Z, E. L. Norris, '96 l, H. W. Conner, '96 l,
M. R. Sturtevant, '96 l, H. W. Barnes, '96 l, C. P. Lund, '96 l.
The Michiganensian, a consolidation of The Palla- dium, The Castalian, and the Res Gestae, is put forth once a year by the senior literary, law, and engineering classes. The first volume, issued in April, 1897, is in octavo form, and contains 400 pages. It has many excellent illustrations drawn by Standish Backus, '98. May 3, 1898, the second volume, a profusely illus- trated quarto, appeared. In neither of these books are the pages numbered, so that indexes and also tables of contents are lacking. Following is the roll of editors, the first name for each year being that of the managing editor, while the second is that of the busi- ness manager:
1896-97-S. W. Smith, '97, E. H. Humphrey, '97, H. M. Rich, '97, Katharyne G. Slenau, '97,
1896-97-Jennie P. White, '97, A. H. Stoneman, '97, R. R. Wiley, '97, R. G. George, '97 /,
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1896-97-C. H. Stearns, '97 7, G. C. Bagley, '97 l, C. L. Moore, '97 l, J. R. Crouse, '97. 1897-98-T. R. Woodrow, '98, E. L. Geismer, '98 7, F. S. Simons, '98, M. W. Turner, '98,
1897-98-Eva J. Hill, '98, Louise P. Weinmann, '98, Robert Steck, '98,
B. C. Dickinson, '98,
J. H. Harris, '98,
J. Q. Adams, '98 l,
S. B. Haskin, '98 l, W. E. Stowe, '98 l.
To the academic class of '69 we are indebted for a magazine which has become one of the institutions of the University, and which is now the oldest of all the student publications at Ann Arbor. March 9, 1867, the first number of The Oracle, an eight -page sheet measuring eight by ten inches, made its appear- ance as the annual representative of the sophomore class. Butler, Chaney, Kerr, Waterloo, and Wilkinson, all prominent men of '69, were the editors. By the class of '70 the paper was enlarged to sixteen pages. Under the auspices of '75 a pamphlet of fifty pages, bearing the seal of the class on its paper cover, was issued. The sophomores of '82 decided not to publish this annual, "thus saving themselves", said The Chronicle, "considerable trouble, and conferring an appreciated blessing on man- kind". But the action of '82 has not been imitated by any later class, so that The ACTING-PRESIDENT HUTCHINS, '71. Oracle of 'or is the forty-second of the series. Recent issues contain about 100 pages with illustrations. The reading matter relates to the sophomore class and its organizations, and includes short stories, bits of verse, and "grinds ".
At first consisting of five men, the editing board of The Oracle now includes twice that number. Society interests are involved in the selection of editors for this as for every other student publication. When the class of '95 met to elect a board, a resolution that there should be ten editors, five from the societies and five from the neutrals, one of each class to be a woman, was adopted. Then a member of one of the nine so-called Palladium fraternities named four candidates as "nominees of a fraternity caucus". To the surprise and grief of the Palladium combina- tion, four representatives of the societies not included in the Palladium group were nominated and elected. In consequence The Oracle for 1895 was "boycotted" by two of the larger
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Palladium fraternities, and the sales were not so large as they would have been under other circumstances. Following is the roll of the editors of The Oracle :
W. S. Waterloo, '69,
W. A. Butler, Jr., '69, H. A. Chaney, '69,
Sarah George, '77, G. N. Orcutt, '77, L. S. Smith, '77,
T. F. Kerr, '69,
William Carpenter, '77,
A. E. Wilkinson, '69,
G. H. Harrower, '78,
G. E. Dawson, '70,
G. F. Foster, '78,
C. S. Carter, '70,
Annie S. Peck, '78,
T. C. Christy, '70,
Cora I. Townsend, '78,
G. C. Wattles, '70,
E. E. Darrow, '70, V. S. Lovell, '70,
A. C. Angell, '78,
Frank Emerick, '70,
F. S. Bell, '79,
E. M. Avery, '71,
J. P. Brown, '79,
H. L. Gleason, '71,
T. C. Green, '79,
E. L. Marks, '71,
H. W. Ashley, '79,
R. E. Phinney, '71,
F. D. Mead, '79, Newton McMillan, '79,
R. M. Wright, '71,
R. T. Chandlee, '79, W. F. Bryan, '79,
George Colt, Jr., '72,
W. H. McKee, '72,
David Felmley, '80,
C. K. Turner, '72,
P. B. Loomis, Jr., '80,
O. D. McCardle, '72,
C. C. Whitacre, '80,
J. J. Mapel, '72,
C. S. Mitchell, '80,
M. M. Ward, '72,
A. B. Pond, '80,
V. M. Spalding, '73,
F. F. Reed, '80,
R. S. Gross, '73,
B. S. Waite, '80,
S. R. Peabody, '73,
J. H. Willard, '80,
M. T. Keenan, '73,
E. H. Bowman, 'SI,
J. H. Emery, '73,
G. H. Fletcher, '81,
C. L. Doolittle, '73,
H. H. Kingsley, '81, H. M. Pelham, '81,
P. B. Gorman, '74,
F. C. Robbins, '81,
J. C. Knowlton, '74, T. H. Johnston, '74,
C. T. Thompson, 'SI, C. A. Towne, '81,
D. A. Matthews, '74, J. D. Warner, '74, W. T. Belfield, '75,
J. T. Winship, '83, John Morris, Jr., '83,
W. G. Doty, '75,
C. T. Wilkins, '83,
T. W. Peers, '83,
F. A. Walker, '83,
H. E. Tinsman, '83,
F. A. Platt, '75, Emma S. Stockbridge, '76, Louisa M. Reed, '76,
Hugh Brown, '84,
A. C. Stevens, '76,
W. B. Chamberlain, '84,
H. M. Campbell, '76,
C. W. Wooldridge, '76,
C. A. Marshall, '76,
D. U. Fairbanks, '84, A. E. Miller, '84, Edmond Palmer, '8.4,
J. C. Floyd, '76,
F. N. Scott, '84,
G. A. Cady, '77,
F. C. Wagner, '84,
W. J. Gray, '77,
A. H. Williams, '84,
Octavia W. Bates, '77,
J. W. Maish, '84, L. M. Dennis, '85,
W. R. Roberts, '77,
J. D. Wilson, '81,
Lorenzo Davis, Jr., '75,
E. H. Smith, '75,"
W. H. Potter, '75,
C. D. Willard, '83,
F. A. Maynard, '74,
F. J. Jennison, '83,
C. A. Rust, '71,
S. D. Walling, '78, George W. Knight, '78,
G. T. Campau, '70,
H. B. Walmsley, '78,
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F. F. Bumps, '85,
F. K. Ferguson, '85,
W. J. Gregory, '85,
A. G. Pitts, '85, R. S. Dawson, '85, Ellis Goddard, '85,
R. C. Peters, '85,
J. E. Burchard, '86,
E. F. Demmon, '86,
W. A. McAndrew, '86,
A. F. McEwan, '86,
O. B. Taylor, '86,
G. W. Whyte, '86,
F. T. Wright, '86,
Sarah E. Satterthwaite, '96,
Eliza P. Underwood, '86,
J. E. Duffy, '87,
F. E. Beeman, '87,
J. W. Case, '87,
J. D. Hibbard, '87,
E. A. Hoover, '87,
Charles Hudson, '87,
A. J. Covell, '87,
J. B. Thomas, Jr., '87,
L. G. Townsend, '87,
Moritz Rosenthal, '88,
G. L. Bolen, '68,
F. S. Arnett, '88,
L. K. Comstock, '88,
F. W. Hawks, '88,
D. E. Heineman, '88,
M. M. Mann, '88,
J. C. McNaughton, '88,
Honta B. Smalley, '88,
Elsie Jones, '88,
W. W. Parfet, '89,
W. R. Antisdel, '89,
C. S. Hyde, '89,
D. B. Gann, '89,
A. E. Jennings, 'S9,
W. S. Holden, '89,
F. B. Spaulding, '89,
H. C. St. Clair, '89,
Clarissa S. Bigelow, '89,
Lillie E. Rosewarne, '90,
L. J. Richardson, '90,
E. L. Miller, '90,
S. H. Woodard, '96, E. R. Harrington, '96, Maud I. Cooley, '96,
J. H. Deitz, '96,
J. Earl Brown, '96,
A. K. R. Hutchinson, '97,
E. H. Humphrey, '97,
R. C. Whitman, '97,
W. E. Taylor, '97,
H. C. Jackson, '97,
Bertha E. Pritchard, '91,
R. C. Thayer, '91,
A. S. Butler, '91,
Jacob Lowenhaupt, '91,
R. T. Holland, '91, Eda M. Clark, '91,
L. L. Munn, Jr., '91, T. H. Walker, '91,
W. J. L. Lyster, '92,
H. C. Bulkley, '92, May Carpenter. '92,
Fitzhugh Burns, '92, A. C. Gormley, '92, C. P. McAllaster, '92, Wilhelm Miller, '92,
A. C. Rogers, '92,
S. M. Trevellick, '92,
Lulu B. Southmayd, '92,
H. A. Friedman, '92, W. J. Currer, '93,
Margaret M. Cahill, '93,
F. H. Smith, '93,
W. P. Parker, '93,
F. E. Janette, '93,
S. S. Harris, '93,
H. H. Denham, '93,
W. B. Ward, '94,
D. F. Lyons, '94,
Mabel E. Holmes, '94,
Florence E. Wolfenden, '94,
W. B. Canfield, '94,
C. W. Sencenbaugh, '94,
H. H. Sharpless, '94,
R. V. Friedman, '94,
D. B. Luten, '94,
W. E. Bolles, '95,
H. H. Smith, '95,
Myra M. Post, '95,
Isabel A. Ballou, '95,
H. M. Cox, '95,
C. W. Foster, '95,
M. W. Neal, '95,
C. E. Wakefield, '95,
F. H. Willits, '95,
H. B. Hoyt, '95,
L. A. Pratt, '96,
J. H. Prentiss, '96, Florence R. Jones, '96, Norman Flowers, '96,
Faith Helmer, '90,
L. E. Torrey, '90,
E. F. Gay, '90, 1
E. B Conrad, '90,
W. D. Ball, '90,
E. M. Coolidge, '90,
Alice H. Damon, '90, G. H. Snow, '90, P. E. Stillman, '91,
R. L. Dean, '97, E. P .. Lamont, '97, C. O. Cook, '97,
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Belle L. Otis, '97,
H. T. Griswold, '99,
Stella Westcott, '97,
C. B. Hole, '99, Mary H. S. Hudson, '99,
G. C. Shirts, '98,
J. B. Pell, '99,
R. E. Wisner, '98, Hellen E. Ramsdell, '98, Winifred Beman, '98,
G. R. Sims, '99,
C. W. Whitney, '99,
S. B. Coolidge, '98,
I. A. Campbell, 'oo,
Harry Helfman, '98,
R. C. Woodworth, 'oo,
C. H. Farrell, '98,
Ada M. Safford, 'oo,
H. P. Treadway, '98,
Anna Daley, 'oo,
D. H. Trowbridge, '98,
E. S. Corwin, '00,
B. C. Dickinson, '98,
F. D. Eaman, 'oo,
M. B. Beattie, '99,
J. J. Walser, 'oo,
Allan Campbell, '99,
B. O. Greening, 'o0,
C. E. Cartwright, '99,
S. P. Cobb, '00,
E. A. Davis, '99,
J. B. Wood, '00.
Emilie A. Flintermann, '99,
In June, 1881, The Commencement Annual, contain- ing in two numbers, each a large single sheet, the addresses and other literary exercises of Commencement week, was issued by a few students. Similar numbers were emitted in June, 1882, and in 1883 this annual was issued in pamphlet form. The publica- tion is now merged in The Michigan Alumnus.
In 1882-83 the feminine contingent of the junior class pub- lished The Amulet, a pamphlet resembling The Oracle and designed to defend the interests of the women students. The edi- tors of this annual -which has not had a successor-were Mary Case, Isabella H. Hull, Jane Emerson, and Mary G. Taylor.
Another annual, The Technic, was started in 1884-85 by the students in engineering. It was-and still is-issued in pamphlet form; and it is devoted to the technical problems which interest civil engineers.
CHAPTER IX
STUDENT MUSIC
In American colleges the singing of distinctively student songs is a custom of somewhat recent origin. Not many of the college songs-except those of German parentage-were composed before 1850, although two or three of the fraternities have songs written a few years earlier. The first printed collection of secret-society songs appeared in 1849, and the first book of Yale songs carries the date 1853. To German universities we owe the music of "Integer Vitae," and both the words and the music of " Lauriger Horatius."
One may trace in the annuals and other publications the grad- ual introduction of college singing into Michigan. The Pal- ladium for December, 1860, says: " Of all features in college life which fix imperishable associations and bind indissolubly the heart of friend to friend, we hail the advent of none with more unqualified gratification than that of college songs". The same paper adds: " Although their adoption and use has not as yet become entirely general, yet we predict for them universal favor: -and we trust that the cordiality with which they shall be wel- comed may in some measure atone for their tardy appearance among us". In The University Magazine for February, 1862, appears not merely a class ode for '62, but also " Ann Arbor Litoria ", a song which enjoyed great popularity until the allusions in it became obscure, and of which the first stanza and the chorus read thus:
Ann Arbor is a jolly home; Sweedle inktum bum. We love it still where e'er we roam; Sweedle inktum bum. The very songs we used to sing, Sweedle inktum hi ru sa, In memory's echoes long shall ring, Sweedle inktum bum.
CHORUS .- Litoria, litoria, Sweedle inktum hi ru sa, Litoria, litoria, Sweedle inktum bum.
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The Palladium for 1863-64 said that the University should be able to boast of songs peculiarly its own. "We have", wrote the editors, "many songs, and good ones too, but they are all transformations from those of other colleges"; and the hope was expressed that a precedent would be established in the next number of the annual. Accordingly the editors for 1864-65 offered a prize of ten dollars for the best original song. Presi- dent Haven and Professors Frieze and Evans passed upon the production offered; and they selected as of equal merit two songs, one by Arthur H. Snow, '65, for the air of the "Marseillaise", and the other by James K. Blish, '66. The former used to be sung at all the great festivals of the University, nor have we any other song that takes its place. It is in four stanzas and begins. with these lines :
Come, jolly boys, and lift your voices, Ring out, ring out, one hearty song; Praise her in whom each son rejoices, And let the notes be loud and long. ' Tis Alma Mater wakes the spirit, And prompts the strain of harmony- Oh, sing to her triumphantly ! The glorious theme-do ye not hear it? The chorus is:
Hurrah ! Hurrah ! ye sons By Alma Mater blest ! All hail! All hail! her honored name, The pride of all the West !
The other prize-song of 1865 is entitled our college home, and is-or was-sung to the same tune as "Upidee". It has four stanzas, which follow:
Come, throw your busy cares away, And join us in our cheerful lay; With many voices we'll prolong The accents of our fav'rite song- Of Upidee, etc. Our University for fun, She wins the love of every son, And while our joyful hearts beat high, We'll send our chorus to the sky- Of Upidee, etc. The poorest lad within the land Receives the favors of her hand, And those who come unto her door, Will sing her praises evermore- In Upidee, etc.
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The memories that linger here, Shall ever live, our souls to cheer; The very stars will brighter shine, When linked with thoughts of thee and thine- In Upidee, etc.
Another song by Blish of '66 is "Quodlibet," sung to the tune of "The Captain with his Whiskers." It was a great favorite thirty years ago, and appeared first in The Palladium for 1865-66. The opening verses of it are these :
' Tis September's golden month, when the opening is at hand, That we watch the trains and registers, to see the Freshmen land. There is stumpy Fresh and seedy Fresh, and Freshies short and tall, The Freshman with the goggles, and the Fresh who wears a shawl. Some are hopeful, some despondent, and a very knowing one Asks you if it is a fact that the Prex now weighs a ton.
Oh, they all are model boys, study hard the whole day long, Always go to chapel regular, and sing this little song;
" Oh, that will be joyful, Joyful, joyful, Oh, that will be joyful, When young men sin no more."
Richard S. Dewey, '69, won the prize offered by the Palla- dium Board of 1868-69, his effort being in four stanzas enti- tled "Let Every Student Fill his Bowl." The air is that of " Come, Landlord, Fill Your Flowing Bowl." This was one of the popular songs of the sixties and seventies. The first stanza and the chorus run thus:
Ann Arbor is the jolliest town This side the broad Atlantic, And holds enough fine-looking youths To drive the girls all frantic. Freshmen so verdant-green, Soph'mores of pompous mien, Juniors, for fun so keen, And seniors so pedantic. CHORUS-Let every student fill his bowl With something not too strong, sir, And pledge our Alma Mater's health, And join this jovial song, sir. Ann Arbor is the place, you know, To which our warmest feelings flow, We'll love it still where'er we go And fate shall life prolong, sir.
An attempt to collect and publish the college and class songs of Michigan has not been made. Several of the verses sung in earlier days at Ann Arbor are included in Waite's Carmina Colleg-
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ensia which was published in 1869; and individual classes, for ex- ample '73 and '75, have put in print collections of their favorite songs. In 1889 appeared a pamphlet entitled Songs o f the Yellow and Blue, the words by Charles M. Gayley, '78, and Fred N. Scott, '84, the music by Professor A. A. Stanley. A second edition containing twenty songs was issued in March, 1890. First in the book, and unquestionably the most popular of all the songs of DENTAL BUILDING, 1877-91. the University, is "The Yellow and Blue," which is sung to the air of Balfe's famous " Pirate's Chorus." The words of it are these:
Sing to the colors that float in the light; Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue! Yellow the stars as they ride thro' the night, And reel in a rollicking crew; Yellow the fields where ripens the grain,
And mellow the moon on the harvest wain; Hail ! Hail to the colors that float in the light; Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue !
Blue are the billows that bow to the sun When yellow-robed morning is due; Blue are the curtains that evening has spun, The slumbers of Phœbus to woo; Blue are the blossoms to memory dear, And blue is the sapphire, and gleams like a tear ;- Hail ! Hail to the ribbons that nature has spun; Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue !
Here's to the college whose colors we wear; Here's to the hearts that are true ! Here's to the maid of the golden hair, And eyes that are brimming with blue ! Garlands of blue-bells and maize interwine; And hearts that are true and voices combine ;- Hail ! Hail to the college whose colors we wear; Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue !
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The college cheer-modified to suit the metre-finds place in the song "Rah! Rah." There is also a "Cigarette Song, " and the alumni have a special hymn "The Star of Other Days."
One of the best songs in this collection is " Alma Mater Mine," by Fred N. Scott. The first stanza runs thus:
Thy voice is in the ears of men, Thy finger points the way To where the tender flush of dawn Foretells the coming day. Oh, guide them through the darkness, thou, Nor hide thy face benign -- The light of sunrise on thy brow, O Alma Mater mine !
Some of these songs, for example "The Answer," "Witchery," ""Morning Song," "Evening Song," and "Romeo and Juliet" are subject to the criticism that they are not college songs, for they have nothing to do with college life or college matters. However the delicious absurdity of "Romeo and Juliet" almost justifies the inclusion of that song. "Elixir Juventatis" by Professor Scott is a drinking song at which the "prohibition " element need not take offence. The opening stanza of it runs thus:
A health! clink! clink! and now we drink No juice of grape or grain, But we sip forsooth, the wine of youth That leaps from heart to brain; We're young! We're young! let every tongue Intone the choral hymn, While memory swings her silent wings Above each beaded brim.
Gayley's well known song "Birds of a Feather" begins with the following lines:
O whiles we tell of rushes whiles we sing and sup,- And sip the wine that flushes, In Hebe's amber cup, And toast the maid that blushes And smiles, and then looks up, And toast the maid that blushes, And smiles, and then looks up!
The chorus is:
In sad or singing weather, In hours of gloom or glee; Birds of a feather We haunt the same old tree,-
And sing, sing together, O Michigan, of thee!
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"Ann Arbor" a song in the air of "Die Wacht am Rhein," has two stanzas, of which the first reads:
Ann Arbor, 'tis of thee we sing, From thee our choicest blessings spring; Accept the tribute of our song,
O Alma Mater, wise and strong. We love thy classic shades and shrines, We love thy murm'ring elms and pines; Where'er our future homes shall be, Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee.
One more of this collection should be mentioned here. This is the song "Goddess of the Inland Seas" by Gayley. The first of the four stanzas has these verses:
Sing no more the fair Aegean, Where the floating Cyclads shine, Nor the honey'd slopes Hyblaean, Nor the blue Sicilian brine, Sing no storied realms of morning Rob'd in twilight memories,- Sing the land beyond adorning, With her zone of inland seas.
Of the music which accompanies the Songs of the Yellow and Blue it is enough to say that it was composed or arranged by Pro- fessor Stanley. The collection as a whole is easily superior to the song-book of any other college; and were four of the irrelevant songs omitted from it and six of the older Michigan odes added to it, we should have an admirable collection. One of the results of the excellent songs written by Professors Gayley and Scott was a revival in college singing at Ann Arbor. A class formed in 1889 for practicing the songs profited by the instruction of Professor Stanley during that and the following year.
It must not be supposed that all the songs of Michigan are included in the general book of college hymns or in the collection which has received particular mention in these pages. Scattered throughout The Palladium and The Castalian are many excellent verses, adapted for popular airs. Among these is the song " Universitas Michiganensium," which appeared in The Cas - talian for 1892. Frank W. Howe, '92, is the author, and the tune for which it is intended is "Maryland, My Maryland." Fol- lowing is the first stanza:
Thy call has brought us to thy side, Michigan, our Michigan. We take the charge with loyal pride, Michigan, our Michigan.
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We gladly pledge our vows with thee Beneath the shadowing oak and pine That guard the glory of our shrine, Michigan, our Michigan.
In The Palladium for 1859-60 mention is made of a musical organization called "Les Sans Souci", composed of E. D. Fiske, '60, Leader and Violin; E. N. Wilcox, '60, Violin; C. E. McAlester, '61, Flute; E. D. Nichols, '61, Flute; Frederick Arn, '61, Guitar; W. J. Buchanan, '60, Guitar; and Caleb Parkinson, '60, Violincello. An "Amateur Musical Club" composed of nine members, and an "University Choir" of four persons, are cata- logued in The Palladium for 1860-61. In the following year the "University Choir" had eight members, and the class of '64 is credited with a "Sophomore Glee Club" composed of J. H. Kidd, F. A. Buhl, William Brewster, and J. D. Town. The Palladium for 1862-63 mentions not any musical clubs; but the same annual in 1863-64 tells of a "Junior Glee Club" with five members, and of an organization called the "Sophomore Aeolians ". Names now well known figure in these societies. In 1864-65 the " Junior Glee Club" add- ing a member, became the "Senior Glee Club". Also in the class of '65 existed DENTAL BUILDING. the " Cremona Club" which furnished instrumental music. Twelve members of '68 in their sophomore year constituted the " Beethoven Society " which was devoted both to vocal and to instrumental music. For the year 1866-67 there is no record of any musical club save only the "Arion" a vocal quartette composed of R. S. Dewey, '69, F. A. Dudgeon, '69, F. M. Smith, '68, and E. A. Kilbourne, '68 m.
Three musical associations flourished in 1867-68. These were the "Amphionic" with seven members, the "Quintette Club " of the class of '70, and the famous "Minstrels " of '69, J. E. Hin- man, Samuel Hayes, Jr., A. M. Hurty, W. C. Johns, and W. A. Butler, Jr. In 1868-69 three of the secret societies, Alpha Delta
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Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Psi Upsilon, had serenading clubs, each composed of eight members. These fraternity clubs, with additions from other societies, were maintained, nominally at least, for many years.
In 1867-68 the "University Glee Club" was organized. The members of it were S. R. Winchell,,O. J. Campbell, J. A. Baldwin, V. S. Lovell, T. H. Bush, J. S. Maltman, and Edwin Fleming, all of '70, and W. J. Herdman of '72. This club in 1868-69 had seven members, all of the class of '70, viz., J. A. Blackburn, T. H. Bush, O. J. Campbell, G. E. Dawson, Edwin Fleming, V. S. Lovell, and J. S. Maltman. To it belongs the credit of starting a new order of things at Ann Arbor, and of elevating and popular- izing college songs. In senior year the club gave a series of concerts in different cities of the state, beginning at Jackson on Friday, February 4. More than one hundred students formed an excursion party to attend the debut of the club, and we are informed that the pleasure of the trip was enhanced by special railroad accommodations and fine weather. In reporting the con- cert The Jackson Citizen said:
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