Word: bandsmen
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Included in the program will be a medley of popular songs for each year since 1919, the founding year, played while the bandsmen form a calender with changing numerals...
...eight-foot tuba provided the bandsmen with opportunity to display almost unparalleled ingenuity. When the massive horn was dropped last year outside Symphony Hall, managers were seriously puzzled as to how to fit it--within the band budget. They finally got a satisfactory repair job, cheaply, an auto body repair shop...
While these trips have been high points of each year for most of the bandsmen, at least one of the most love members of the group can't make them. He is Paul Touchette, a Cambridge fireman, who has been with the bend since 1947 in a top trumpet-playing capacity...
Despite such attempts to douse the enthusiasm of the bandsmen away from home, even the disheartening combination of foul weather and fouler football have not kept the band from serenading the team after every game. Such consistency of spirit prompted varsity coach Lloyd P. Jordan to present the organization with the football used in the Crimson's 22-to 21 upset victory over Army in 1951. The ball is now encased in a place of honor in the band room...
...that matter, so is the band. The niceties of nuance and proprieties of gentlemanly behavior are for more sedate organizations. Once, in a typically caustic vein at a typically ragged rehearsal, Holmes announced: "This has got to come to a screeching halt." He may well have expected the bandsmen to stop screeching, but as for a half, well, in spite of money troubles. Yale brickbats, and fatiguing greyhound bus trips,--the Sprit of the Harvard Bend Goes On and On.MALCOLM H. HOLMES...