Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pierian Sodality that now holds so proud a position in Harvard among the clubs that give any external evidence of their existence was a very humble affair some fifty years ago. The present number of members appears like the most of Xerxes when compared with the small band that discoursed music then...
...just such instruments gave the early Plenians an opportunity to do what every club in college must have envied them for, and of which the "orchestra" of to-day is incapable. In the balmy nights of spring ??? little band of players would go to ??? ton or wherever else there dwelt ??? maidens and serenade them. T ??? were the days of chivalry, and ??? players were amply rewarded by the rustling of a blind or the raising of a sash. Not infrequently the Sodality serenaded the wrong house, as when they uttered their sweet music to the attentive ears of Judge...
...last Glee Club-Pierian concert a young lady was overheard to say "How nicely the Pi Eta band plays...
...University band will discourse sweet strains at the winter meeting of the Athletic Association. - Cornell...
...racing will be given. In the evening a concert will be given in Music Hall, at 8 o'clock, consisting of tableaux representing Canadian winter sports, and songs by a chorus of 300 voices. Le Trappeur Club will be dressed in uniform and be accompanied by the Victoria Rifle Band. During the evening some one member of a Boston club will be initiated into Le Trapper Club, which is a very interesting ceremony...