Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brooks was elected president for the ensuing year and Arthur B. Silsbee treasurer of the college fund. Some other business was transacted and the meeting then adjourned. Next in order was the annual dinner, and at 2.30 the procession was formed in front of Massachusetts Hall Headed by a band graduates in front. Headed by a band of music the alumni to the number of seven hundred marched to Memorial Hall, where the dinner was served. The Rev. John F. Moors invoked a blessing and a psalm was sung under the leadership of the veteran John Langdon Sibley. President Russell...
...cheering the seniors will form two rings around the tree, the juniors two rings outside of them; the sophomores, two rings outside of the juniors, and the freshmen one ring outside of all. All classes will stand still in rings and will sing "Auld Lang Syne," while the band plays. As the seniors (both rings) begin to move very slowly to the left, the juniors will do the same to the right, the sophomores to the left, and the freshmen to the right. When the seniors break for the flowers, (i. e. when the hat is thrown at the tree...
...Thursday the Johns Hopkins University completed its eighth year. The exercises are simple and business-like. The closing day is not called commencement. There is no band, no speaking of the graduates, nothing but business. At 6 P. M. the president, trustees, professors, instructors, fellows, graduates and candidates for degrees entered Hopkins Hall and took their places. President Gilman's address to the students graduating urged that they should encourage popular education, doing what they could to advance the interest of the common school; that they should be interested in politics, have opinions, scan principles, and not stand aloof because...
Next fall there will be vacancies for the following parts: E flat cornet, E flat alto, B flat tenor, bass trombone, B flat bass, 2 E flat basses, and double B flat bass. All intending to try for the band are requested to consult with me before commencement...
...faculty in this country, has twice made use of its authority in a very forcible manner. In 1875 the sophomore societies were abolished by the order of the faculty, and a few years later the freshman societies ceased to exits by decree of the same powers. In 1876 a band of undergraduates broke into one of the senior society halls and made havoc generally with what they could lay hands upon, and in 1878 another gang of collegiate marauders embellished two of the senior society halls by means of a bountiful use of paint, laid on in original designs. These...