Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Meeting of fifes of Drum Corps today at 4.30 at the brass band room (Pudding building.) Every student who can play a tune on the fife or flute is desired to come...
...Boston Cadet Band has been secured for the Schurz procession tonight...
Yesterday morning the attention of the students was drawn in two directions politically. About half past seven the square was lighted up with torches and filled with the noise of drums and band caused by the Harvard Law School Blaine and Logan club, headed by a band of music and escorted by two companies of uniformed torch bearers, marching down to Cambridge port to attend the Republican rally at Union Hall. The Lawmen were accompanied by about 100 students and others...
...escort Carl Schurz and to wear "plug hats. They also voted to invite the Cleveland men of the drum corps to march with them, as their previous invitation to the whole corps was not accepted by the drum corps. A subscription was taken up to pay for a band, and the under graduates present who are going signed their names in a book...
...suggestion a correspondent makes that the "Harvard Brass Band" and the drum corps turn out with the student delegation which is to attend the Independent rally in Boston, is not a bad proposition. Other considerations aside, the practice to be obtained would more than repay the trouble, while the accompanying fun would serve further to tip the scale in favor of this scheme. If the drum corps is not the proficient enough to turn out en masse, a picked corm might be chosen from among those whose former experience with the sticks enables them to serve without further practice...