Word: bandsmen
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...mourning over at the Bandroom, for their Drum is dead. The eight-foot instrument, once the largest playable bass drum in the world, expired last week after a twenty-eight year battle with damp weather which expanded its cowhide sides, and a mammoth drumstick, which contracted them. But the Bandsmen are not spending their time in idle, tearsome reflections--of how the Drum stopper a Yale student who tried to jump through it, of how a Cambridge boy once rode on top, whamming it with the huge drumstick...
...this reason, the Bandsmen will begin canvassing for funds in dining halls this evening. If they can get the necessary amount in the next two weeks, they will be able to haul a new drum onto the field for the opening football game next season. The new drum, in fact, will be bigger than the old, thus surpassing the instrument purchased by the University of Florida last year, once again giving the Band the biggest in the world...
From its inception, the drum boasted a colorful career. It was obtained from the Associated Harvard Clubs, who in 1927, told the Band to buy itself a drum. The bandsmen bought a drum indeed--the biggest in the world...
...Bandsmen have realized for some time that their symbol would soon need replacing. Already, they are attempting to locate firm equipped to build a new drum, and a cow equipped to provide the large heads...
...there is no carte blanche gift from the Harvard Clubs this time, and the bandsmen estimate that it will take at least $1,500 for a replacement. If they can get the money in time, they hope to be able to field a now drum by next season...