Word: band
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attractive series of "movies" reels has been arranged for and a band from Boston will play popular airs throughout the evening...
...decidedly unpleasant to the members of the Regimental Band of this University to find their rendering of "Fair Harvard," adapted for their purposes and used otherwise only for marching, criticised as "mutilated ragtime." "Fair Harvard" is only one selection from a medley played by the band during regimental manoeuvres, and has been changed from 6-8 to 2-4 time, so that the rhythm may be fit for marching. There is a distinct difference between march time and rag-time...
...Many times it is sung with the most indistinct enthusiasm, a great number of students being so unacquainted with it that they know not even the words. Certainly there is no calling into question of its sanctity when it is played in an outburst of enthusiasm by a band trained to render it as a march. We cannot conceive it possible that the hymn may imbibe into its essence any coarse or unpleasant aspect because it resounds oftener in the ears of students; and the band hopes that such a community spirit in the rendering of the hymn may call...
...clock and also between 5 and 6 o'clock. The sale will continue tomorrow, the hours being 12 to 2 and 5 to 7 o'clock. This paltry $1.75 will cover, not only the official Senior uniform, but also the entire cost of the trip, including transportation, lunch, band, and refreshments, which will be served both on route and at the picnic itself. The costume will consist of a miner's cap with 1916 beautifully engraved on it, white overalls, bathing trunks, and the proverbial tin cup. A can of jet-black waterproof paint will also be provided so that...
Every Harvard man stands up and bares his head when he hears the first strains of the old hymn,--yet who can imagine in his fellow classmen an impulse to uncover during the modernified rendition brought forward by the Band...