Word: drummed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brightest spots of the afternoon, for the Harvard side of the Stadium at least, was the playing of the Harvard Band. Displaying a snap and precision, a rhythm, having besides, a drum major who did not fear the regulation size baton, the Crimson Band, deported itself in such a manner as to win the administration of both cheering sections...
...acquire a complete understanding of the history of music, one must know its earliest phases, the hollow wooden drum as well as the mighty organ, the tortoise-shell lyre of Apollo as well as the Banjo-uke. And today Professor Hill will speak on "Early Instrumental Music" in Music 3 at 12 o'clock in the Music Building...
...Harvard had its pistol, but the Crusader leader had the Harvard stands on its feet yelling for more of his gravitational magic. The fight might well have been declared a draw by music critics, Harvard's volume equalling the single-handed figuratively, of course--performance of the Crusader's drum major...
...Harvard rooters are to be damned to see their drum major out-juggled every Saturday by an embryonic W. C. Fields, they should at least be spared the humiliation of apologizing for the manners of its representatives. To lose a battle of music after a hard fight--and we hope there is nothing wrong with the morale of the musicians--is no disgrace but not to play the game according to the rules...
News that the big bass drum of Purdue will not boom in the Stadium this afternoon brings disappointment to the potential spectators, but relief to the Harvard Band. For according to rumor, the musicians who so unfortunately stayed at home not only possess the most gigantic drum in the history of Lafayette, Indiana, but are a group of men whose manoeuvres on the gridiron are equalled only by the warriors once in moleskin and silk. There was a time, just after the war, when the Harvard Band had a monopoly on football music, or at least on intermission parades...