Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the University Band are feverishly racing against the clock this morning in an effort to retrieve the world's largest playable bass drum in time for tonight's Dartmouth Concert...
...pillars of their church; and they are almost unanimously family men. Al Vellucci probably holds the record with eight children--two in the Coast Guard. A fairly typical candidate is Joseph Lund, one of the newcomers. At a candidates' rally recently he described his activities as founder of three drum and bugle corps, an usher at St. Mary's for "the past 15 years," and a fighter for veterans' rights. Lund charged that Cambridge veterans were getting a "raw deal" on their ratings for positions as teachers and on the waste involved in two city departments' handling...
...biggest drum, two inches higher than the one used for the Cornell game, is in Chicago, undergoing repairs for the Ohio game...
Tomorrow, for the first time in nearly 30 years, the Harvard Band will not have the largest playable drum in the world at a University football game. It will have only the second largest...
...substitute, the Band will use its old drum, retired in 1955, which only seniors have seen. According to Kenneth H. Lang '58, band manager, the faithful instrument had not missed a game for 27 years until its retirement, but "is now in exceptionally good condition...