Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...words are to be adapted to the music of "The Harvard Stadium March", which was written by Mr. Ballantine. The song at the present time is being rehearsed by the University band. The competition will be open to all past and present members of the University...
...primary object of the Harvard University Band is to furnish suitable music during intervals in the football games and to encourage the singing of Harvard songs by the student body. At the more important games we offer more elaborate programs in preparing letter formations and in playing the songs of the visiting college whenever possible...
...fact--perhaps not generally known by those who charge us with lack of courtesy--that, with the exception of two of the Yale songs, none of the songs of those colleges which are our opponents on the gridiron are available at any price in band arrangement, and in some cases even vocal or piano copies are not to be obtained with ease. On the other hand such Harvard songs as "Our Director" and "Veritas" are standard marches and can be purchased at any time in band arrangement, and In some cases even vocal or piano copies...
Finally, it is unreasonable to expect that an organization as large as the Harvard University Band, which numbers among its members many new-comers to Harvard, totally unfamiliar with our songs and with the conduct of the band, could, in three short rehearsals, furnish as complete a program early in the season us at the Princeton and Yale games. Ambrose F. Keeley '27, Director Harvard University Band...
...Green squad arrived in Boston late yesterday afternoon and are staying at the Hotel Bellevue. When shortly after two o'clock, the Dartmouth players left Hanover in automobiles yesterday, two thousand students jammed the sidewalks and sent "Wah-Hoo-Wah's" booming across the town, while the band sent the strains of "The Backs Go Tearing By" through the uproar...