Word: brass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nines of the Alpha Delta Phi and the Zeta Psi played an interesting game yesterday afternoon on Holmes, The former nine marched on the field headed by a brass band, and their opponents came later following a pianoorgan. After the game, the nines and their supporters marched through the yard. Mr. Bingham gave great satisfaction as umpire. The score...
...brass band (?) holding forth from the roof of a horse car which was covered with advertisements setting forth the merits of the "New Grand Opera House" performances in Boston, aroused the inhabitants of Little's Block and Holyoke yesterday afternoon by its dulcet bugle-notes. In response to the cries of "More! more!" the band had just started out anew with great vigor when a pail of water from one of the windows above so disconcerted them that they retreated in confusion, and the quavering note of the horns died away in the distance, much to the relief of every...
...last Saturday night. The rejoicing exceeded all bounds of moderation and was carried into the small hours of Sunday morning. The hostility was intensified Monday night, the occasion being the annual celebration of the death of the sophomore societies. A crowd of about seven hundred students, headed by a brass band, marched around the campus and then proceeded to the residence of President Dwight. In spite of the repeated cheers and calls, the president, contrary to his usual custom, did not appear. The processions, after visiting several professors, none of whom responded, returned to the "fence." Here a general rush...
...rather too zealous. His business was to keep the sidewalk clear and keep people moving; if he was too lazy to undertake this he might have sent to headquarters for a more efficient officer. A police officer who thinks he rules the world simply because he wears brass buttons and carries a club is a public nuisance, and should be taught to draw the line between what is his duty and what is none of his business. In this matter, Leavitt and Peirce are not to blame, and are naturally much annoyed that the thing should have happened...
PIERIAN SODALITY.- Brass and wood wind will rehearse as per circular...