Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great parade -such a demonstration as war and peace and conferences and statesmen seldom evoke from the Capital City. The parade was in honor of the return of the Washington Baseball Club with its first American League pennant. First came the inevitable police, then a U. S. Cavalry band mounted on black chargers, then red-coated, white-breeched fox hunters, then black and white female fox hunters, then the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in luxurious limousines, then the triumphant players, in even more luxurious automobiles provided by the foremost citizens. Up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol...
...been lacking in several recent Freshman classes, according to the Student Council. Such a rally has never before been held for an entering class. The rally will be addressed by several prominent Harvard graduates, and then the class will march to the Stadium as a unit behind the University Band. The H. A. A. has arranged the seating to make it possible for the class to sit together. The committee in charge of Freshman affairs, of which B. F. Rice-Bassett '25 is chairman, will hold other functions for the Freshman class to overcome the increasing tendency toward indifference among...
Yesterday the team left for Chicago, where it is to encounter the strong University of Chicago eleven tomorrow. A thousand students, led by the University Band, escorted the team to the Union Station at 8.30. Classes were suspended for an hour at that time by order of President Faunce, and no chapel services were held in the morning. The crowd of student made plenty of noise, and the train steamed out of the trainshed amid thunderous cheers...
Orders were immediately passed by the Chief Marshal for all classes to procure uniforms. Freshmen were asked to wear plug hats. The order of march consisted of first the Cambridge Police Force and then the Drum Corps, Senior class, Junior class, University Band, Sophomore class, Freshman class, hired band, Law School, Medical School, graduates and carriages, containing the football team and leaders of the Republican party at college. The procession marched from the Charles Street Jail, up Commonwealth Avenue, down as far as Dartmouth Street to Boylston, past the Brunswick Hotel, where Mr. Blaine reviewed it, to Columbus Avenue, through...
When asked to comment upon Russian nationalistic music and the aims of the course, Professor Hill said: "This new course deals with one of the most important manifestations of nationalism in the growth of certain Russian composers beginning with Glinka, including the famous group, `the invincible band', touching upon the music of Tschaikowski, Scriabine, and others of his contemporaries, and concluding with Stravinsky, a thoroughly characteristic product of 20th century musical...