Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Applications for the Harvard drum-majorette contest next week poured into the CRIMSON yesterday in rafts, and separate divisions for high-school and college girls had to be established to take care of the rush. Late last night 53 names were entered...
Following a growing cry for "sex in the band," the CRIMSON this morning announces a competition for aspiring Drum Majorettes to come from near and far. Entrants to the "Gateway to Harvard" contest will be judged early next week...
There is one red-hot poker which can put some real fire and spirit into the whole business. This is the selection of a high-stepping, tastefully exposed drum majorette to head up the Harvard marchers. "I reckon it's mighty strange how a pretty leg can kick you between the eyes," a high political official from Louisiana once remarked...
Recently, the Oregon Emerald announced in 72 point streamer headlines: "OU GETS DRUM MAJORESS." The action came as a result of a bitter controversy which had rocked the student body, faculty, and administration for months on end. There was plenty of reason for the Emerald to sensationalize the outcome, because it meant that Oregon had finally allowed the Pacific Coast Conference to go one hundred per cent for drum majorettes...
Contrast this situation with the one hundred per cent dearth in the East. New England college students never get any closer to drum majorettes than leering at their pictures in "Click." Here is a chance once and for all for Harvard to establish her intellectual supremacy. She can start a movement among the Ivy Colleges which will burn up the league. It might be objected that all-male educational institutions are in a slightly different position from the coed plants of the West, but what about the American Legion...