Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peace"). The secret leaked out. Mr. Warren hired roustabouts and huskies to rush his stones into place. Rector Ladeuze stopped them with a court injunction and the entire police force of Louvain, then hired other huskies to put up his stones. No sooner were they in place than a band of his own students appeared shouting "Vive Warren! Vive Mercier!", climbed to the roof of the library, hurled down and shattered most of the balustrade, marched away chanting Belgium's national air La Brabançonne. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze had a third set of "stones" hastily moulded...
Enough of what cadets did in the past. There are a few stunts which are pulled year after year. Every year on the morning of graduation, the entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around the area; and they follow in any formation and in any uniform they choose. The uniforms range from two victrola records, silk lingerie, and so forth, to over coats, boots, and wash basins. A similar parade is conducted by the cadets in summer camp at reveille the Fourth of July...
...Student Council retains $700 for its own overhead and running expenses, and as $750 is being given to the Harvard Band for the Michigan trip, $2550 remains for distribution among benevolent institutions. It has already been decided to give $1,000 to the Red Cross and $500 to the Salvation Army, he bequests to the Cambridge Boy Scouts and the Committee on Friendly Relations among. Foreign Students awaiting the consultation of the Budget Committee with the newly-formed P. B. H. advisory group...
Leroy Anderson, '29, leader of the University Band, in a recent statement to the CRIMSON, said that the band is this year larger than at any time in its history. There are over 90 members enrolled, only 75 of whom will journey to Ann Arbor for the Michigan game...
...that the football season has been successfully launched once more, the Vagabond can devote himself to his duties with greater assurance. College seems to be existing in some sort of suspended animation until the band has blared the familiar marches through Harvard Square for the first time and the first October afternoon has been spent looking down on the struggling players and cavorting cheer leaders from a perch high up in the horseshoe. But with the opening Saturday once passed the vast conglomeration that is a university settles down into the rhythm than continues, save for a change of tempo...