Word: grouped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next fall, Harvard succumbed to the paralyzing Dartmouth offense led by halfbacks Jim Burke and Jake Crouthamel and lost, 26 to 0. Nevertheless, Crimson adherents could claim a larger victory in 1957--a glorious triumph in the Battle of the Big Drum. It was in that year that a group of Dartmouth students nearly succeeded in hauling away the Band's big brass drum, only to be halted by Band members wielding trumpets, tubas, and whatever else they could lay their hands...
...Radcliffe Development Fund Conference rounded out its two-day schedule last night with a dinner in Radcliffe's Comstock Hall. Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe, spoke briefly to the group of 150 Radcliffe fund raisers...
...play in the almost 400-piece reunion band are those who have been responsible for establishing the Band's unique position in the University community and its fame throughout the country. Although beset by war years, financial worries, rival school's cheering sections, and the Dean's Office, the group has always in its 40 years managed to entertain its audiences and have a good time doing...
Midway through the football season of 1919 a group of musicians decided that the music previously provided at the games by the University Banjo and Mandolin Clubs needed some pep. The founder of the first Harvard Band was Frederick L. Reynolds '20, who will be marching this afternoon. With Reynolds directing, the Band shared playing time with the Banjo and Manolin Clubs in its first appearance, October 2, 1919. That season the group occupied Section 35 in the Stadium, the same position it has had ever since...
...first possible to attempt the now familiar formations. With the spelling of H-A-R-V-A-R-D and V-E-R-I-T-A-S on the gridiron that year, the Band started its practice of weekly half-time shows. Among the first clarinetists in that group was G. Wright Briggs '31, who has directed the Band since 1953. Anderson, though an alumnus in the thirties, continued to work with the Band by directing and arranging...