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...Harvard University Band has voted not to participate in Commencement for the first time since 1947 unless the 25th Reunion Committee lifts restrictions on the activities in which Bandsmen may take part...
Bolles also promised that later this year the faculty will reconsider the decision forbidding bandsmen to use the empty seats on buses to away football games for their dates...
Last winter, however, Dean Watson, then acting director of Athletics. decided that it was unfair for "Harvard to pay for the transportation of people not connected with the College." He suggested that the empty seats be used for J.V. football players or needy students, and forbade bandsmen to take dates with them to away games...
...sunny Saturday morning, and the big parade was about to begin. From the horns came tentative tootles as bandsmen warmed up, and here and there snapped the punctuating rap of snares. Off to one side, a little lipstuckup ten-year-old girl in a resplendent black uniform spun a shiny stick. Her perspiring mother hovered near by, brandishing a hairbrush. The little girl pursed her lips and swung her baton with the same concentration and faultless precision that another might devote to a game of jacks. The baton shot up and around as the girl flipped it into a neck...
...countless other crossroads communities of rural America before the war, the biggest night of the week used to be the night of the weekly band concert. Stores stayed open, and farmers finished their chores early to drive to town. In Newton's Military Park, the municipal bandsmen sat solemn and proud in high-buttoned navy-blue tunics, and filled the summer night with sound. The music may not have satisfied John Philip Sousa, but it was loud enough to compete with the moaning of the evening train. Always, it attracted more than a thousand spectators...