Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brass Band. - Rehearsal to-night at 7.30 in Roberts Hall. Full attendance is desired...
When the class of '38 graduated a new order of exercises was inaugurated. As soon as the morning programme was ended, the class committee placed a band in front of Stoughton, and as soon as the fair maidens could finish their ice cream and lemonade they were surprised by being invited to go down and dance about the tree. The band which had been practicing Fair Harvard (two years old) started up, also surprised, and began a series of quadrilles and waltzes, which they continued until dark. Toward evening, the seniors for the first time gathered about the old tree...
Thus arose the modern Class Day. The class of '39 enlarged the idea. The grass was cut for dancing, a platform was erected behind Stoughton, and a regular band of stringed instruments engaged. In consequence of the new arrangement, the custom of giving "spreads" originated, and the writer has before him a note, yellow with age, dated 1839, which runs as follows...
...Brass Band has obtained Roberts Hall for evening rehearsals, and will begin practicing this week...
...Iron" Kelly, of Pa., well remembered as one of the brightest and most strong-minded women who ever attended Cornell, and whose marriage (as reported) to a distinguished Russian Nihilist was announced some months ago is well remembered at Zurich, Switzerland, where she was one of a little band of students who there sought the higher degrees which they were not allowed to take in other German Universities. While at Zurich, Miss Kelly was prominent in a woman's rights movement which resulted in sending a petition to Congress, though it is not learned that it resulted in anything. - Cornell...