Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nimble fingered, high-stepping men who "got rhythm" are in demand by the expanding University Band, which opens its competition for drum major and baton-twirler today. Qualified candidates should report to the Band office in the Music Building today or tomorrow for a screening by a board of baton experts, manager Walter J. Skinner '48 announced yesterday...
...band of the roaring 20's grew rapidly through the days of white sailor caps and bow ties, but still lacked the bass drum, the Anderson medleys and the snap drills which gave it nation-wide fame and provoked high-school girls and college co-eds from as far as Texas to write touching letters to Bill Bingham pleading for a chance to be a Harvard drum majorette...
...Drum Battle Scarred...
...drum joined the band in 1928 as a gift of the Associated Harvard Clubs. In 20 years of trundling onto football fields all over the East it has outfought New Haven evildoers and has been promised six guards for the excursion into Connecticut next fall...
Fast Enough. How fast is a snail's pace? At College Park, Md., U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service conchologists (mollusk fanciers) were measuring to find out. Dr. Paul Galtsoff puts a seagoing snail inside a drum of transparent plastic. When the snail moves (either forward or backward) the drum revolves, recording the snail's motion on a sheet of smoked paper. Conchs move fastest: an average 19 feet an hour. Little oyster drills, one inch long, move only a couple of feet...