Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the CRIMSON was compelled earlier this fall to announce that it could not spare the space for any further editorials or letters on the subject of the Harvard University Band, the performance of the musicians in the recent games has, been such as to require an exception to the rule...
...Boston writer phrased it, "the Harvard Band defeated Yale by a score of 41 to 0," and this, to any Harvard man, represents the acme of achievement along any competitive line of endeavor...
...Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning, shouting, backslapping, this horde converged upon the Mayflower Hotel in an uproarious phalanx around their loudly lumbering leader, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill...
...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
When the parade has reached the Stadium, the band will take its place in the center of the stands, and A. H. O'Neil '28 will lead cheers for the team...