Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brass band gave great satisfaction on Monday evening...
...party arrived at the Albany Station some 20 minutes before the train was due, and whiled away the interim by cheering, singing, and listening to the Brass Band, whose efforts at this time were confined for the most part to bass drum solos. The more prudent among the students took advantage of the wait to explore the adjacent hostelries for sand wiches and other refreshments. At quarter to eleven the train rolled in. A scene of wild confusion ensued. The members of the nine were borne in triumph to their barge, while a second short but decisive fight for seats...
...Beacon street and Brookline bridge. Luckily the rain had ceased, and the display of red fire and rockets was not interfered with. Arrived at the college, the party was met by the undergraduates who had remained in Cambridge, and a procession was at once formed, headed by the band. Amid a blaze of red and green fire, and the flashing of Roman candles the column marched up to the main entrance of the yard, only to find that the gates had been shut against them. Baffled, but not discouraged, the men counter-marched, steadily keeping up the refrain of "Yale...
...Haven and Amherst. Few will ever forget the ovation the nine received as it came down by the yard in the midst of a blaze of rockets and red fire, saluted by the wild "rah, rah" of a thousand students, serenaded by the weird strains of the Brass Band, which played, replayed, and then played over again the only air it had attempted to master,- "Yale men say." Nor will the saturnalia that followed be forgotten for many a year,- by the proctors, at least...
...BRASS BAND. There will be an important rehearsal this afternoon at 4.30. It is desirable to give a concert on some evening of this week, and it is imperative therefore, that every man attend this rehearsal...