Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the patronage of His Majesty King Albert and His Highness Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S., there arrived last week in Manhattan the Symphonic Band of the Royal Belgian Guards, for a three months' tour...
...Belgian Independence is the famed Regiment des Guides, and old as the Regiment des Guides is the Royal Belgian Band which was organized to make its music. During the War the Band, too, served as a fighting unit, won high distinction for bravery...
...City Hall where Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...
...boys composing the tour are all approximately seventeen years of age, and travel resplendent in uniforms, marching upon occasion accompanied by their own band. A special train consisting of three Pullman cars, one club car, and a baggage car, has been employed during their journey...
...instruction offered by this institution is purposely not of the spot-passage memorize-this-and-you'll-get-a-C sort of thing obtainable at a tutoring school. Perhaps as howhere else at Harvard this band of volunteers offers to teach men confused by the freedom of college the proper methods of correlating and assimilating the information given out in books and lectures. Proper recognition of such unselfish effort may scarcely be expected, but there are many to whom this work has been a boon in the past who will be grateful for the proposed extension of the present admirable...