Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ceremonies were simple. Across the Rhine from Coblenz the French tricolor that had floated over the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein for the past eleven years was hauled down while a band played the Marseillaise, then carefully packed for shipment to the Hôtel des Invalides, French war museum. To a rattling quickstep, troops tramped off to the station...
Gold footballs, which are given to Harvard elevens successful over Yale, will be presented to the team at this dinner. There will be motion pictures of this year's Harvard-Yale game, and the undergraduate band will be present to provide music for the occasion. President Lowell has been invited, but according to an unofficial report last night from N. F. Ayer '00, president of the Harvard Club, he will be unable to attend. However, W. J. Bingham '16 and head coach Arnold Horween '20, are among those who have definitely accepted, and both of these will speak...
...night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...
...executive officer of the U. S. S. Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed to the rigging...
...program of the vocal club, whose selections will be interspersed throughout the concert, will include "Glorious Forever", by Rachmaninoff: "Chorus of Bacchantes", by Gounod, from "Philemon and Bancus"; "Longshoreman"; "Schneider's Band"; "Johnny Harvard"; and "Old Man Noah". The Mandolin Club has planned to present Brahms' "Waltz in A Major"; "Frasquita", by Franz Lehar; and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore". The pieces offered by the Banjo Club will be the "Veritas March", by Densmore, and a medley of the various college football songs. The Gold Coast Orchestra will play the "Russian Fantasy", arranged by Lange...