Word: band
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malcolm H. Holmes, band director, explained his earlier decision by saying, "I'm getting too old to die for dear old Harvard in a riot," but undergraduate and alumni pressure at both Harvard and Dartmouth have brought about a change in band policy. Homes expressed great confidence in McCarter's letter...
...Harvard Band, after having announced that it would not serenade the Dartmouth stands during today's halftime intermission, has reversed its earlier decision and will now perform for the Hanover stands both before the game and between the halves...
During the game demonstrations will be limited to Band formation...
...plans included bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping two or three Lampoon "fruits," and dressing an entire bogus Crimson football team which was to have taken the field just as the Band ended its half-time act, and dyeing the Charles River green...
...Frankly, they're a bit of a nuisance," Band Director Malcolm H. Holmes '28 said yesterday afternoon, "and I'd just as soon let them have their side of the field to themselves...