The Morehouse College Quartet, above, is rumored to have started on campus as early as 1870 and often included mandolins; the historic group performed, among other places, at the White House in the 1920s and for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.
Recently-elected Morehouse College President Dr. John Wilson Jr. (third from left) attended the Morehouse Glee Club’s spring concert with other Boston dignitaries at King Chapel on Sunday, Feb. 17. (Brent Clarke photos)