Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...torchlight parade for Harvard Republicans equipped in the traditional manner with free supplies of red fire and gasoline torches, as well as a 20 piece band, will start its march at the Freshman gymnasium tonight at 7 o'clock. The objective of the marchers will be Convention Hall on St. Botolph street in Boston...
...University Band will have several of its most tuneful renditions recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company for sale before the Princeton game, it was announced yesterday. "Fair Harvard," "Harvardiana," "Up the Street," and "Our Director" are the four melodies selected as being the most popular in the College...
...members of the University Band under the leadership of A. F. Keeley '27 will be assisted by a group from the Glee Club in their recording work. It is expected that the two records will be ready for sale before the Princeton football game...
...high-school boys sat in a row. One got up and then there were four. Behind these four sat a gathering of foreign diplomats, three members of the Coolidge Cabinet-Secretaries Wilbur, Work and New-U. S. Superintendent Ballou of Education, John Hays Hammond* and President Coolidge himself. A band was playing "O Canada," which some of those present tried and others pretended to sing. When the band stopped the schoolboy who had left his seat in the row began to make a speech...
...therefore, of Canada's beneficial institutions that the first boy-speaker, Herbert Moran of Toronto, told. After he had finished, the band played "God Save the King," which a lot of the children mistook for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" because the tune was the same, and up stepped William Meades Newton of Liverpool, England, to tell about the benefits of the British Empire. Nearly every one recognized the next anthem without difficulty, "The Star Spangled Banner," which heralded the performance of the champion U. S. school orator, Herbert Wenig of Los Angeles. Herbert repeated the piece...