Word: march
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Subsequent history of the Advocate (which in March, 1869, became the Harvard Advocate) has been in pleasant contrast to its troubled beginning. The friendly relations between the editors and the Faculty is shown by the attendance of many of the distinguished members of that body as guests at the annual dinners of the paper. Financially the publication has led a varied life, but when there has been a sufficient balance in the treasury, gifts have been made to the College Library--$200 in 1869, $100 in 1870, $200 in 1873--and to the University boat club, as in 1875; literary...
...decidedly unpleasant to the members of the Regimental Band of this University to find their rendering of "Fair Harvard," adapted for their purposes and used otherwise only for marching, criticised as "mutilated ragtime." "Fair Harvard" is only one selection from a medley played by the band during regimental manoeuvres, and has been changed from 6-8 to 2-4 time, so that the rhythm may be fit for marching. There is a distinct difference between march time and rag-time...
...most indistinct enthusiasm, a great number of students being so unacquainted with it that they know not even the words. Certainly there is no calling into question of its sanctity when it is played in an outburst of enthusiasm by a band trained to render it as a march. We cannot conceive it possible that the hymn may imbibe into its essence any coarse or unpleasant aspect because it resounds oftener in the ears of students; and the band hopes that such a community spirit in the rendering of the hymn may call into new life the "wholesome conservative opinion...
...celebration will start on Monday, June 12, with a gathering of all Technology men, past and present, in Huntington Hall, for a farewell ceremony to the Rogers Building. The entire body will then march to the embankment, where it will be met by a small fleet of motor boats. This crossing of the river will be made an aquatic jubilee. Progress in naval construction will be shown by the latest models of many types of vessels. It is planned to have torpedo boat destroyers and submarines in manoeuvres in the Basin, working in conjunction with fast motor boats and hydroplanes...
Promptly at 6 o'clock Friday morning at trumpeter will arouse the drowsy Seniors. At 6.30 the band will start the grand march around the Yard, headed by the special prize 1916 goat. Half an hour later six special cars, bearing refreshments and the band, will start the Seniors on their journey of mystery...