Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Band of Music...
...song may be considered rather a minor feature, vet if it deserves a place on the programme at all, it deserves to be done well. In order to prevent it from being utterly flat, it is necessary that it should be sung, and not merely played by the band with the accompaniment of a few feeble croaks by the class, and in order to be sung, it must be rehearsed. Half an hour just after dinner is not a severe tax upon any one's time, and every man who can sing at all ought, for the sake...
Sanders Theatre was crowded last evening by an enthusiastic muslin clad band of ladies to witness the graduation of the class of '86 Cambridge Latin School. Selections from Shakespeare, Moliere, and Homer were well rendered, except for the fact that the French was difficult to distinguish from the Greek. The honors of the evening were shared by Messrs. Burnham and Henshaw, and Misses H. E. McIntyre, E. H. Bright, and M. L. Jewett...
Last year saw a brilliant class day. There were all the illuminations, band playing and singing that one could desire, yet a spectator, standing on the steps of University Hall could perceive hundreds of men, in no way connected with the college, joining in the endless promenade around the yard; and the coarse laughter of these men and their female companions was so out of harmony with the time and place as to destroy half the illusion, and make the whole affair seem like one huge base-ball celebration open to the whole of Cambridge and Boston. We speak very...
...this is its success in a great measure due. It was by far the best celebration which has been given this year, and few celebrations of former years have surpassed it in the number of the fire-works displayed and excellence of the music furnished by the brass band. For once, the Conference Committee was not obliged to exert its energies in extinguishing bon fires in the yard, but could gaze with satisfaction at the glare of the huge fire on Jarvis. This is the third celebration which '89 has provided this spring, and now that she seems to understand...