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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arrangements were made with the HAA for seats that turned out to be in section 35, the same place occupied by today's band. With Frederick L. Reynolds '20, directing, the group played at its first game on October 2, 1919, while Harvard beat Boston College 17-0. Though they made only one trip away that year--to Princeton--the band played at every home game thereafter...
...season's high point, the Yale game, the band had 80 members, but 35 of these didn't play. It was a good show, though. During the early winters of the organization's career, two dance bands were formed to travel around the country raising funds, and upon their success depended the band's life the next season...
...takes the hide of one whole calf to make each head, and several years of seasoning are necessary to make the drum playable. In twenty years the monster percussion instrument has become practically the band's trademark so, though the high cost of transportation is prohibitive--always over $100--it is usually carried to all nearby games as well as Soldier's Field...
...treaty partner, Hitler, attacked Russia? No one in a position to speak freely knows, and until such questions are answered, all a biographer can do is to rework the public record. Biographer Deutscher, an ex-Communist who now writes for British weeklies, has done this with taste and scholarship. Though less exciting and brilliant than Trotsky's acrid biography of Stalin, Deutscher's book is more reliable and objective...
...been serfs) and a practical organizer who would transform the intellectuals' fantasies into reality. He concentrated on building a personal political machine-first in the underground and then in the Soviet state. In the end, he liquidated the intellectuals. Deutscher sees this as a "betrayal" of the revolution, though most U.S. readers are likely to think if the most natural outcome in the world...