Word: drum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started on October 16, when, on the first page of "Notes and Coment," the New Yorker supposedly lost its illusions and declared that "the six-foot base drum in the Harvard band is a phoney." Result of this sudden and undeserved notoriety of the giant precession instrument has been a flood of publicity, news photos and wiaccracks during the last two weeks, including a mammoth burlesque of inanimate maternity by pacudo-obatririenna from Hanover before the deluge at the Dartmouth game...
Despite repeated definite denials from official sources, namely directors of the band itself, the slanderous rumors that the big drum "couldn't take it" have maliciously persisted in circulating. The interested parties have grown rather tired of it all, and justly...
...CRIMSON, after a thorough investigation and private tests, would like to announce that it is thoroughly convinced of the drum's virility, or more definitely, of its undisputed ability to make a noise. "But why can't you hear it better?" is likely to be the next question of the skeptical undergraduate. The explanation for this is simple...
...diameter, the surface area of each is about 28 1-4 square feet, if you remember your plane geometry. When the calfskin is hit a good wallop, this makes quite a radius of vibration; unfortunately the sides are so close together that most of it is dissipated inside the drum, producing a low tone that doesn't carry very far. But the tone is there nevertheless, and the claim that the real boom is produced by a smaller instrument is absolutely unfounded...
...huge drum, a gift to the band from the Harvard alumni of Pennsylvania, often plays an integral part in the between-the-halves formations, as for example when it toted a teddy bear in the Brown game and repelled an arrow in the Dartmouth puddle-jumping contest...