The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review October 1905
The Battle of the Bans
The Battle of the Bans.
E. I have a song to sing O.
J. Sing me your song O.— Yeomen of guard.
Let the singers singers
With vocal voices most vociferous,
In sweet vociferation out-vociferize
Even sound itself.
The prize offered by the students' Association for the best "Capping Song" was this year won by S. Eichelbaum with "Tempora," J. Brailsford's "Froggy" being place second.
It may not be too presumptuous on our part to suggest here that the printing is not the primary object for which a Capping song is because they were handed in rather late, several of the songs were this year not sung (sing, from old Latin singinare — "to whisper out of tune," a derivation evidently carefully studied by the Glee Club).
We should therefore suggest that for next year a date, say two months before the actual production, be fixed as the latest on which songs will be accepted. This will give ample time for practice, and both author and audience will have greater cause for satisfaction.
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