Word: triads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet the needs of these three elements, Walker proposes a triad organization consisting of the football band, a concert band, and a new group to be called the wind ensemble. The football band is largest of the three groups, and the one most generally known. Its standards of admission are not uncommonly high; the main idea is to get a lot of people out on the field, particularly brass players. The concert band is a cut-down version of the football band. Better balanced among woodwind, brass, and percussion, it plays considerably more than the football medleys and Harvard songs...
...anti-jockism at Harvard is as bad as anti-intellectualism; neither type of personality under attack really exists per se at Harvard, and there is no reason why a varsity athlete can't dispel the erroneous triad of stero-types by joining a final club and getting A's. To those who ask "What the hell are you doing down at that wet, muddy field with a bunch of robot-animals when you could be expanding your knowledge by reading or studying?" the athlete can reply "Accumulating a college experience" with as much validity and pride as a member...