Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Band collected 1115 dimes last night in its drive to replace the deceased bass drum. Although the $121.71 collected so far represents less than a tenth of the $1500 goal set for replacing the Band's most famous asset, officials of the group were satisfied...
...drum will restore to the Band its former distinction of owning the largest playable bass drum in the world. The University of Florida last year bought a drum identical to the old Band instrument; now, of course, the new Harvard drum would be slightly larger...
They're in mourning over at the Bandroom, for their Drum is dead. The eight-foot instrument, once the largest playable bass drum in the world, expired last week after a twenty-eight year battle with damp weather which expanded its cowhide sides, and a mammoth drumstick, which contracted them. But the Bandsmen are not spending their time in idle, tearsome reflections--of how the Drum stopper a Yale student who tried to jump through it, of how a Cambridge boy once rode on top, whamming it with the huge drumstick...
Instead, they are already at work, trying to get a new one. With characteristic diligence, they have found a company which will build a new drum, and with characteristic brashness, they have ordered it, although they lack the necessary...
...this reason, the Bandsmen will begin canvassing for funds in dining halls this evening. If they can get the necessary amount in the next two weeks, they will be able to haul a new drum onto the field for the opening football game next season. The new drum, in fact, will be bigger than the old, thus surpassing the instrument purchased by the University of Florida last year, once again giving the Band the biggest in the world...