Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present year bids fair to be the most successful the University Band has had. Its numerous engagements and its reputation of being the best collegiate band in the United States, as well as one of the best organizations of its kind in the East, give lasting proof of what can be done with such an organization in a university of this size...
...Band is just entering upon the busiest part of its season. Previous to the mid-year period it had played forty-three public engagements, including a number of local concerts and a trip to Yale with the football team...
...extensive programme of concerts and dances for the next three months is being planned for by the management of the University band, including visits to towns in the neighborhood. Most of the concerts will be followed by dances. During the spring recess, the band will make a several days' tour, holding concerts in Worcester, Springfield, Albany, New York City, and possibly in New Haven. Practice is held every week for the sixty or more band members, but more men playing stringed instruments are still needed...
...expect to please everyone in its audiences, (and it is hardly fair for those who have not been to a concert to give judgement), nor can it ever hope to do so. Unquestionably there are those who leave a Symphony Concert feeling that they would have enjoyed a jazz band more; and others who, upon seeing a Shakespearian performance long for the less subtle enjoyment of a musical comedy. Their course of procedure is clear; either they may resolve to try again, with the aim of improving their taste, or they may decide to remain in the realm of jazz...
...satisfied to print the usual type of college article and story. Its first number of the present year is sufficient proof that it had forgotten the purpose with which it set out. Such titles as "The Football Team," "Harvard's Glee Club," and an article on the band show clearly that the effort was rather toward replacing the Advocate than toward establishing a separate field. Harvard can easily support two literary magazines, but it is doubtful if it will support two which are almost identical in purpose and method...