Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indications are that there will be about 1000 rooters on the special train from Bloomington on Thursday. Indiana's military band of nearly 100 pieces, which is reputed to be the best in the Big Ten Conference group, will also be on this train...
Next Saturday the Harvard players are doomed to being outdressed by the visiting band, wearing full military regalia, and boasting a seven foot drum. Harvard is content to forego the brass buttons and gold braid now that its representatives have added the polish of courtesy to the tunes that they have always rendered faithfully...
...merely in our band music and in a failure to form the letter and play the music of the opposing college that we show a lack of courtesy, but I feel also in singing Yale songs when we are playing Holy Cross, for instance, we are using a "high hat" procedure which is a grave discourtesy...
...sides I find people, I am sorry to say, against Harvard because they think she is so "stuck up", and I feel that in our lack of proper, recognition of our opposing Colleges in our Band music and in our songs gives a real basis for this feeling...
...able to win in football, but certainly in our Band music, our singing, and our cheering, we ought to win a larger measure of approbation from those attending the games. Delcevare King...