Word: fife
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...KEYES.DRUM AND FIFE CORPS. Will all men who are willing to play the picolo please meet at No. 4 Holworthy today at 1 o'clock...
...DRUM AND FIFE CORPS.- We need more picolos. Will all men who are willing to play the picolo please meet at No. 4 Holworthy today at half past four...
...HARVARD FIFE, DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS.- All candidates for the above will assemble on Holmes Field this evening at 6.45 p. m. Every man that can, bring drum, fife, cornet, or sticks. We need a few more men, especially cornet players...
...number of men are held back from signing for uniforms by the thought that a drum and fife corps may be formed. This statement may account for the fact that so few men, especially of '87, have as yet signed the book at Leavitt & Peirce's. '87 and '88 are the only classes in college who had the good fortune to participate in the last presidential torchlight procession. Remembering how important and successful a feature the drum, fife and bone battalion then was, we are not surprised at this present hesitation to sign among the ranks, as long as there...
...outbreak of the rebellion a guard for the Arsenal was organized, composed of Harvard students. They marched to the enlivening music of fife and drum, drilled, and stood guard until the matter got to be looked upon as an opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition...