The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . shes shiningThy soul they will ensnare. The maidens of the EhinelandOf all the fairest prize,Their lips so softly smiling,So shadowy sweet their filmy silk wreaths flingingWhile low lovelays theyre singingIn love-lore wondrous wise. During the music, the knights and squires form atableau illustrating the secular learning of the MiddleAges as embodied in chivalry. Its chief principle washonor. This was taught by the knight to his squire and Germany. The accompaniment, supplied by
The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . shes shiningThy soul they will ensnare. The maidens of the EhinelandOf all the fairest prize,Their lips so softly smiling,So shadowy sweet their filmy silk wreaths flingingWhile low lovelays theyre singingIn love-lore wondrous wise. During the music, the knights and squires form atableau illustrating the secular learning of the MiddleAges as embodied in chivalry. Its chief principle washonor. This was taught by the knight to his squire and Germany. The accompaniment, supplied by Mr. Granville Bantock, ismodern. *When the Nightingale Shall Sing is an early manuscript (1180-90)to be found in the Paris National Library. The composition of the wordsand music is ascribed to a French knight and troubadour, the Chatelainde Coucy, who lived towards the end of the twelfth century. The transla-tion is from Burneys History of Music. Sung by Mr. Erie V. Goodwin. 3 The Minstrel Song is a strolling ballad mongers song, dating from theearly fifteenth century. Sung by Prof. Harry N. FRIDAY, OCTOBER THIRTEENTH 61 pages. Added to this were reading and writing, chessplaying, playing the lute, singing and making verses, therules and usages of courtesy, the use of arms in war andpeace, the tournament, and management of large andsmall bodies of men. As the tableau is formed, the sound of church bells isheard followed by the notes of an organ. A company of monks, symbolizing Theology, which wasthe keynote of the entire life and thought of the MiddleAges, approaches. As they reach the pageant stage, theknights and squires kneel as if to receive their blessing. THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL—SIR WALTER SCOTTCanto SixthXXX And slow up the dim aisle afar,With sable cowl and scapular,And snow-white stoles, in order due,The holy fathers, two and two, In long procession came;Taper and host and book they bare,And holy banner, flourished fair With the Redeemers t
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