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31-542: The Princeton University Glee Club is the oldest singing group in existence at Princeton. It was founded in 1874 by Andrew Fleming West '74, who later became the first Dean of the Graduate College. The Glee Club is currently celebrating its 150th season of concerts. In 1907 Charles E. Burnham was the first professional musician to lead the Glee Club. He was succeeded in 1918 by Alexander Russell, who served until 1934, when

62-449: A residential college for graduate students. After a number of setbacks, and a disagreement with Woodrow Wilson (President of Princeton University, 1902–1910) about the siting of the proposed graduate college, it finally became a reality with the death of Isaac C. Wyman in 1910, who bequeathed $ 800,000 for the purposes of founding a graduate college. The graduate college was dedicated on October 22, 1913. He remained dean until 1928. West

93-533: Is entitled to be called a pioneer institution because of its 'open door' policy in coeducation. It was not the first in the United States, not even in Connecticut, but none of the other early academies opened their doors as wide and kept them open as long. No other coeducational academy spread its influence so far. In September 1814 Morris's wife Elizabeth died. The following March, Morris married Rhonda Farnam and

124-774: The College football games in 1913, the Glee Club held its first concerts with the Glee Clubs of Harvard and Yale Universities, beginning a tradition of joint concerts that have continued to this day. The Princeton University Glee Club was involved in some remarkable projects in the 1930s. They gave the American Premiere of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1931; performances of Schoenberg 's Gurrelieder and Wagner 's Parsifal in 1932 and 1933; Bach's Mass in B Minor at

155-635: The Graduate School at Princeton University . West was born in Allegheny , Pennsylvania on May 17, 1853. He studied at Princeton University from 1870 to 1874. In his final year at Princeton he founded the Princeton Glee Club . After graduating, he taught Latin at a high school in Cincinnati for six years. He then went to Europe to carry out academic study, before taking up a position as principal of

186-560: The Metropolitan Opera House in 1935; and with the Vassar College Choir , gave the first United States performance of Jean Philippe Rameau 's Castor et Pollux in 1937. The Glee Club continued to sing with women's choral groups from Vassar , Bryn Mawr , Wellesley , Mount Holyoke , and Smith Colleges until a mixed Princeton chorus was formed after the advent of coeducation. From 1958 to 1992 Walter L. Nollner led

217-621: The Morris Academy in Morristown , New Jersey. In 1883 West accepted a position as professor of Latin at Princeton University, where he served as Giger Professor of Latin for forty-five years until his retirement in 1928. In December 1900 West was appointed as the first dean of the newly founded Graduate School at Princeton University. As dean, he was instrumental in creating the Princeton University Graduate College ,

248-562: The Connecticut militia and immediately accepted a commission in the Continental Army as a first lieutenant . After serving as a recruiting officer in Litchfield, Morris joined General George Washington and the army at Peekskill . On October 3, 1776, General Washington commanded this army in the Battle of Germantown . The American forces were ultimately unsuccessful in this battle and Morris

279-404: The Glee Club became a responsibility of the music faculty. James Giddings became director in 1934, Timothy Cheney in 1940, J. Merrill Knapp in 1941, Russell Ames Cook in 1943, J. Merrill Knapp again in 1946, Elliot Forbes in 1952, Carl Weinrich in 1953, Walter L. Nollner in 1958, William Trego in 1992, Richard Tang Yuk in 1994, Robert Isaacs in 2009, and Gabriel Crouch since 2010. On the eve of

310-545: The Glee Club with its yearly operations. The Nollner Endowment Fund was officially launched in February 1999. The Glee Club has continued their tradition of overseas concert tours (most recently traveling to Buenos Aires, Paris, Leipzig, Prague, South Africa, Spain, and Mexico) and expanded the repertoire to include more works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Glee Club presents several concerts in Alexander Hall on

341-495: The Glee Club, giving him the honor of the longest tenure of any previous conductor. Under his direction the choir traveled outside the United States for the first time, establishing a pattern of international concert tours to Europe, Asia, South America and the South Pacific, including two around-the-world tours. In honour of Professor Nollner's service to the Glee Club, an endowment fund has been established in his name to assist

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372-589: The Morris's home to care for him day and night. The two families became very close and Gad's daughter Rhoda, only five years old at the time of the illness, later became Morris's second wife. It was at this point in Morris's life that he accepted that he would never realize his early dream of becoming a minister. By 1790, it had become common for children to come to Morris's house for instruction and access to his library. Morris welcomed all of these students, both male and female. Morris's coeducation caused some stir within

403-767: The New England States except Rhode Island, and from the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. Also from the Island of St. Thomas in the West Indies, and from the Island of Bermuda ." By the turn of the century, Morris found it necessary to formalize his instruction and construct a proper Academy building. The estimated cost was $ 1200, so Morris enlisted wealthy residents of Litchfield and South Farms. On November 28, 1803, The Morris Academy moved out of James Morris's home and into

434-489: The Princeton campus. They perform a major oratorio each spring with professional soloists and orchestra. Recent masterworks performed include Orff's Carmina Burana , Mendelssohn's Elijah , Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Mass in B minor , Mozart's Requiem , and Honneger's Le Roi David . Andrew Fleming West Andrew Fleming West (May 17, 1853 – December 27, 1943) was an American classicist , and first dean of

465-545: The best of his imprisonment in Philadelphia by negotiating with his jailors to borrow books from the so-called circulating library recently established by Benjamin Franklin in that city. One historian points to this time as when Morris was exposed to the philosophers that would be so influential in his later life as an educator: "From Milton, James Morris absorbed ideas in favor of healthy exercises to develop both body and mind at

496-517: The brand new building. For the period from 1803 to 1812, the Morris Academy grew to an average of 50-75 students. The abolitionist John Brown , born in 1800, studied at the Morris Academy, although the exact dates are not known. The Academy was handed to several other heads of school, until, on April 12, 1888, the Morris Academy was closed for good. In the introduction to her book on the academy, Barbara Nolen Strong noted: The Morris Academy

527-418: The community when some claimed that his education of women was "'blowing up their pride' so that 'they would feel themselves above their mates and they would feel above labour.'" In 1794, these frustrations were brought to fruition when a hearing was held in the church. The charges were dismissed and the publicity from the controversy brought so much attention, that, by 1803, he had instructed students "from all

558-792: The custody of the British. Morris commanded a company back to White Plains until he received orders to head south to Virginia . Upon arrival, Morris's company, under the overall command of General George Washington , aided in Siege of Yorktown , the last major battle of the American Revolution. Specifically, Morris's company of light infantry provided support to the forlorn hope commanded by Colonel Alexander Hamilton . James Morris returned to South Farms in December 1781. Days after his return, on December 20, he married Elizabeth Hubbard. Shortly thereafter,

589-463: The fight for American Independence . Morris was captured during the Battle of Germantown and spent most of the remaining war in captivity. Upon his release, Morris was promoted to the rank of Captain and supported Alexander Hamilton in the Siege of Yorktown . When he returned from the war, Morris began and ran an academy that trained both boys and girls together, a rarity at the time. James Morris died in 1820. The South Farms section of

620-440: The harvest and took a post teaching grammar school in nearby Litchfield , where he received his first opportunity to teach and was paid "'handsome wages' hoping to reimburse his father for the heavy expenses of his college education." Morris's tenure as an instructor in Litchfield was cut short when, within months of arriving, he received an unsolicited ensign 's commission in the Connecticut militia, which he accepted. While in

651-508: The marriage bore two children. During the "second war with Great Britain" , at the age of 61, Morris was commissioned as a First Major of the Second Regiment of Volunteers in the State of Connecticut. Toward the end of his life, Morris compiled his memoirs, which were subsequently published as Memoirs of James Morris of South Farms In Litchfield . James Morris died on April 20, 1820, and

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682-417: The most extensive private library that [Morris] had ever known in the United States." While still in captivity Morris found this situation rather comfortable and took every advantage of the library he so admired. On January 3, 1781, Morris was freed as part of a prisoner exchange. Upon his release, Morris returned to Peekskill where he discovered that he had been promoted to the rank of captain while in

713-554: The people of South Farms made Morris both the Justice of the Peace and a Selectman . In the summer of 1782 Morris briefly returned to service, but was ultimately released from service in November of that year. In the following years James and Elizabeth had five children: In between the birth of James and Reuben, Morris became severely ill. During his illness, a man named Gad Farnam moved into

744-477: The same time; from Rollin, the danger of following custom blindly rather than reason; and from Locke, the novel idea that the English language was as important as Latin and Greek." In May 1778, Morris convinced his captors to admit him to parole and was sent to Flatbush , Long Island , where he stayed with a Mr. Clarkson. In his memoir, Morris noted that Clarkson was "a man of science and large property, ... who owned

775-406: The service of the Connecticut militia Morris saw his first action, fighting battles in both Long Island and White Plains . In his memoirs, Morris wrote of this time, stating that "The soldiers universally manifested a great respect for me, for my care of the sick and my attention to their wants, and for my sympathies in their distresses." In late December 1776, Morris completed his commitment to

806-489: The town of Litchfield, where he was born, was incorporated as a separate entity in 1859 and re-named Morris in his honor. James Morris was born to Deacon James Morris Jr. and Phebe Barnes Morris in South Farms, Connecticut , which was then part of Litchfield town, on January 19, 1752. Even as a young man, Morris displayed a disposition for education, borrowing often from the library in nearby Bethlehem , where his father

837-733: Was president of the American Philological Association in 1902. He received the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from the University of Oxford in October 1902, in connection with the tercentenary of the Bodleian Library . A cast bronze statue of West made by R. Tait McKenzie in 1928 is situated in the grounds of the Graduate College at Princeton University. Morris Academy James Morris III ( ( 1752-01-19 ) January 19, 1752 – ( 1820-04-20 ) April 20, 1820)

868-537: Was a Continental Army officer from Connecticut during the American Revolutionary War and founder of the Morris Academy, a pioneer in coeducation . Born in Litchfield County, Connecticut , James Morris spent his early life hoping and training to be a minister. However, after graduating from Yale College , Morris accepted a commission of First Lieutenant from the Continental Army and joined

899-587: Was a member. Through these studies, Morris hoped to eventually become a minister. When Morris was eighteen, his father sent him to live full-time in Bethlehem and study under Dr. Joseph Bellamy . Morris continued with Bellamy until the spring of 1770, when he spent the season studying under the South Farms minister Dr. Salmon Hurlburt. That fall Morris found yet another instructor in Mr. Nathan Hale , saying of him, "Mr. Hale

930-524: Was an accurate scholar and an able instructor." In September 1771, Morris began more formal studies at Yale College . For his tutor at Yale, Morris was assigned future Yale president Timothy Dwight IV , who would be an influential force in coeducation in his own right. Morris was awarded his degree in July, 1775, noting in his memoirs, "having had my share of honorary appointments." Upon graduation Morris returned to South Farms, where he helped his father with

961-502: Was taken as a prisoner of war on October 4, 1776. The early part of Morris's confinement were the most trying. He was taken to the "New Jail" in Philadelphia where he "was locked in a cold room ... destitute of everything by cold stone walls and bare floors—no kind of a seat to sit on—all total darkness, no water to drink or a morsel to eat; without a blanket to cover [him]." Despite his meager accommodations, Morris decided to make

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