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Singers Cap Eventful Tour By Purchase of Easter Bunny

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Although on last year's annual spring trip the Glee Club knitted several socks for Britain, the 1942 edition went them one better by returning home with a demure rabbit, and tales of 60-mile hitch-hikes, and buses loaded to double their capacity wending their weary way through a blinding snowstorm.

The bunny was purchased in honor of Easter, and it is rumored that he is residing somewhere around the College. As for the thumbing expedition; Robert F. Avery '42, and Jonas A. Barish '42 were left behind when the buses departed from one stop on the tour, so, starting from Horseheads, N. Y., they solicited rides and ended up at Elmira, N. Y., their destination.

The third calamity of the trip came when the vigilant New York police spotted a leaky exhaust on one of the vehicles, and benched it. So the 60-odd men and their baggage piled into the one remaining wagon, capacity 35, and inched through a blizzard.

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