Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tune with the Yule Spirit we'll drum for beer at the Boston Garden for college hockey. After all, hockey without hops is like baseball without hotdogs, or football without fractures...
...didn' wanna wake up"), and finding ways to resist vocabulary drill ("So who cares? I say a woid like dat an all my frens laugh at me. Nobody know what dat woid means"). Almost every class had its sullen and defiant pupils who would yawn, lounge, drum, stamp, and wander about at will. Whether they worked or not, they knew that the law would keep them in school. Nor did they hesitate to tell "the teach" just what they thought of her. Such students, says Author Dunn, "know your exact place and sooner or later make it known...
...snare-drum player should really play his little solo like Fred Astaire dances!" ("Oh!" wailed a drummer...
...than half of the total amount collected went to the six charities picked by the Student Council. The majority of funds went to well-known national charities, but there were a number of small donations which are difficult to explain. Both the Harvard Athletic Association and the Harvard Band Drum Fund, for example, received small checks from Combined Charities. Legally they may qualify as "charities," but they are scarcely appropriate as true philanthropies...
...only one respect was the Crimson outmaneuvered Saturday. The Band, celebrating the arrival of its new "biggest playable bass drum in the world," was beaten to the punch when the UMass band presented a visual drill which was almost identical to its own. The new drum, like the football team, began its career, however, with a satisfactorily loud bang.Tallback MATT BOTSFORD (40) leaps into the air on the Massachusetts 37 yard line to hit wingback JOHN SIMOURIAN downfield for Harvard's second touchdown late in the first quarter...