Word: mandolin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long time ago--30 years to be exact--spectators at Harvard football games were entertained by the University Banjo and Mandolin Clubs. In 1919, with the season already underway, a group of musicians decided that Soldiers Field fans needed a little more pop and a hand might add the needed virility to the then all-male cheering section...
There aren't any more Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, but there haven't been any complaints yet for the Harvard Band now ranks among the nation's finest, either on the gridiron or on the concert stage...
During that first season it shared playing time with the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, which had combined under one management, and the Glee Club, all sitting in the same section...
...they seized on the union for social contacts, and demanded of it the better life America had promised. A woman's local established the first union vacation spot in 1915, in Pine Hill, N.Y. They organized little amateur theatricals and uplift courses that ranged from parliamentary law to mandolin playing...
...senior year, Louis Johnson strolled beside the serpentine walks, a mandolin tucked casually under his arm, hatless and sporting the latest in peg-top trousers, the biggest man on campus...