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Explaining the absence of the "Wintergreen" medley from last Saturday's program, one band member said that they were "afraid the students might get tired of the song...
...they yell hard enough they'll get Wintergreen on Saturday," University Band officials promised last night, adding that the musicians didn't open their full bag of tricks at the Western Maryland game because "the entire B.U. band was in the stands...
...atmosphere gave way last night almost enough to permit James Otis to hop off his pedestal and take a seat in the parquet. A rousing, unselfconscious performance by the celebrated Harvard University Band; several ad lib remarks delivered from the podium by director Malcolm Holmes including his introduction of "Wintergreen" as a "New England folk song dating from the seventeenth century"; and an extremely responsive audience who howled with appreciation after each number in true Soldiers Field tradition were responsible for the transformation...
...Anderson embellished a Gershwin tune from the musical "Of Thee I Sing," and the classic "Wintergreen for President" medley was born. The arrangement quickly caught the undergraduate fancy and the band has yet to march onto Soldiers Field without a chorus of yells for "Wintergreen...
Unique among College organizations in its life-long membership provisions, the band is complemented during the football season by some graduates who have been marching onto Soldiers Field for as long as 15 years. The lure of "Wintergreen" and a free ticket to the Stadium bring back alumni year after year...