Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every year on the Monday of Commencement Week, a select group of men in academic robes assembles outside of Harvard Hall and, led by a fife and drum corps, proceed to march across the Yard and into Sanders Theatre. If this group is smaller or less imposing than the main Commencement procession, it is certainly no less distinctive, for it is the procession of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to its annual literary meeting...
...Marianne" and the Tarrier's and Belafonte's "Banaha Boat Song" from the top rungs. The "respectable" disk jockies hope that calypso will end the rock and roll craze. Since calypso includes the "Big Beat," it will certainly be much more successful than the previous white hope--fife and drum music as exemplified by the "Yellow Rose of Texas." Rock and roll, however, is here to stay...
Building a team as good as the Truckers in one season meant competing for talent with the five other fine N.I.B.L. teams* and bargaining against the moneymen of pro basketball as well. Kolowich hired former Notre Dame Footballer Jerry Groom to beat the drum and brought aggressive Johnny Dee from the University of Alabama to coach. Backed by the generous assets of DC Trucking's multimillion-dollar business, Groom and Dee peddled some convincing arguments in the fleshpots of college basketball...
Assuming that Hodel and Thomson are succeeded by meeker men, the present entertaining balance of power might be thrown completely off. Think what it will be like next February with no ex-president to beat the drum to scare up new members who will vote for his side. With no one to take former president Thomson's place, the yearly race between the two great factions in the club, Old Guard and Older Guard, might not occur...
Aside from some minor unpleasantness involving Ray Bell, Northeastern defenseman who was penalized three times for slashing and interference, there was little else of interest in the Garden late last night. The Harvard Band, consisting of cymbals, a xylophone, a snare drum, a bass drum, a trumpet, a bag of popcorn and a pint of Ballantine's Scotch, seemed to be in evidence, and number eight of Northeastern, a vigorous little forward, appeared to have a bald head...