Word: band
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fund was started in November of last year, by a committee of ladies interested in the University, to make annual provision for a band of twenty-five pieces which would "promote the dignity and beauty of public academic ceremonies and add to their charm and interest." There are likely to be about four occasions during the year when such music would be desirable, and to meet the necessary expenses of $180 for each occasion, the committee desired to raise a fund of $20,000. The work of collecting this amount was commenced with the approval of President Eliot, Major...
...have recently been received at the Peabody Museum. One of these, comprising pre-historic implements used in the preparation of food from corn, includes mortars, pestles, elm-bark dishes, corn-husk baskets, and ladles and spoons of wood. The other is a collection of the sacred paraphernalia, of a band of the Seneca tribe, which was worn in their sacred dances and ceremonies. It includes wooden and corn-husk masks, rattles of turtle shell and bark, and sacred tobacco...
...band started "Up the Street" at 1.53, and the Harvard side of the field took up the refrain with singing and whistling. At 1.55 the Yale team came on the field. Clarkson led a cheer for Yale while the Yale team was going through signal practice...
...proceed to the Locker Building on Soldiers Field, where the final cheering before the team will take place. After this the procession will march back to the Yard and will disband after more cheering in front of University Hall. In the marching, graduates will be directly behind the band, followed by the four undergraduate classes. It is hoped that every man in the University as well as all graduates who are able, will be in line this afternoon...
...program for the concert is as follows: PART FIRST. 1. "Pro Yalense," Cowles, Yale '06 Yale Banjo Club. 2. a. "Johnny Harvard" b. Champagne Song. Harvard Glee Club. 3. "Brave Mother Yale," Merrill and Shepard Yale Glee Club. 4. "La Sumatreuse." Harvard Mandolin Club. 5. Medley, "Coonville's Cullud Band," Lansing Harvard Banjo Club. 6. "Mr. No-It-All," Mason, Yale '04, and Colin. Yale Glee Club. 7. "African Dream Land," Atwater Yale Mandolin Club. 8. Canoe Song, Leslie Stuart Harvard Glee and Mandolin Clubs. PART SECOND. 9. "Rogers Brothers in London," Arranged by W. M. Rice Harvard Mandolin Club...