Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consists of the following numbers: "The Crimson and the Green," a medley of Harvard and Dartmouth songs; "Tiger Medley," as played at Princeton with interpolation of a male chorus singing The Orange and the Black"; "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," the Cornell alma mater, to be sung by the bandsmen, accompanied by a trombone choir; "Harvardiana," and "Soldiers Field," with vocal; "Wintergreen for President"; "On Brave Old Army Team," and "West Point Alma Mater," the latter sung by the chorus; "Soldier Medley," as played at the Army Game this fall; "Gridiron King," and "Our Director"; "Yale Medley," as played...
Today the band has set itself the goal of breaking all records for number of letters formed at one game. A kind of alpha-soup will flow over the field from the end of the second period until the abashed Eli bandsmen step forth to show their wares, and such of Harvard's ten thousand as can see the field will feel a glow of pride as the intricate designs snap open and shut...
Credit for the success of the band is due in a large degree to two men, to Franklin Anderson, director, orchestrator, and baton-waver extraordinary, and to director Guy Slade in whose nightmares must course new schemes for dotting an i amid endless streams of running bandsmen. To these men, and to the members of the band for the interest they have shown, and for the work they have expended, Harvard extends her thanks...
...great Sportpalast. A marching band is the commonest occurrence in Nazi Germany, but at the sight of this one Berliners stopped, gaped, cheered. The Blatz Post American Legion Band of Milwaukee was the first to march behind the U. S. flag in Berlin since the War. When the bandsmen, with black crepe on their arms in honor of President von Hindenburg, reached the Sportpalast, largest auditorium in the city, 15,000 ticket holders shouted "hoch" and gave the Nazi salute...
...German bands were waiting to join the concert. Even such a cautious commentator as white-bearded Frederick T. Birchall, the New York Times Pulitzer prizewinner, announced that it was a "major event" in the Berlin season. There were plenty of speeches and after the concert thirsty bandsmen joined in a great Bierabend. Milwaukee's bandsmen downed stein for stein, many of them spoke German and 50% were of German descent...