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Ti)e Gipe Club Trip
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The Glee Club trip is one of the pleasant events of the
College year, arid is, a well-earned reward for the hours of hard
practice and constant drill in preparation for the totir. It is
an excellent outing for there is always'a spirit of good fellow
ship prevalent among the members of the club, an atmosphere
of absolute freedom and rest, utter abandonment of books for
the time being, and a calm resignation of all worries-—into
the hands of the manager. The trip this year| was .of ten
days duration. Concerts were given at Albany, Salem, The
Dalles, Ta Grande, Baker City, Walla Walla, Pendleton,
Hood River and Portland. The trip covered in the neigh
borhood o f . one thousand miles, traversing the whole width
of the state, almost to the Idaho line, thence to Walla Walla^
Wash,, and finally back to Portland, where the club disbanded
and pnost of the boys returned to their homes to spend the
holidays,
...There are many trivial obstacles and petty inconveh-
iences'encountered on the journey, but they are cheerfully
overcome as; they are m et; by the optimistic sallies and jests
of some of the boys. ,por in s t a n c e O n e cold, rainy morning.
o<er in Eastern Oregon, the club stood huddled around the
depot stove, a listless, sleepy crowd if ever there was one.
The rain, beating down upon the windows , of the waiting,
room, seemed to play a melancholy dirge that cast a gloomy
silence over the whole club. The second tenor could stand
it no longer. “ Mercy, ?gpodtie&s, me,” he. cried with tears in
his eyes and a pathetic tremor,,in his voice,/‘we chorus girls
do have a hard life.” Such a remark as this always lent
additional merriment to the trip, and brought forth a hearty
“ha, ha,” from everybody, | Np one seemed to mind it par
ticularly if the hotel rooms were cpld, or if the meals were not
exceptionally,fine, or if the train should arrive 30 minutes