Word: banners
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Stadium Exercises: Cheering Songs by Glee Club Presentation of Class Banner to 1920 Singing...
...year in this event. Some of the other demonstrations and competitions in the field day events included building a fire and boiling water, pyramid building for signaling purposes, making camps, and a bugle and drum corps review. The exercises closed with the lowering of the colors, "The Star Spangled Banner," and "retreat," sounded on the bugle...
...other features of the Stadium exercises will be carried out as usual: These features include the singing by the Glee Club, the cheering by the various classes and graduates, the presentation of the Class Banner to the Freshman Class, and the confetti battle. The exercises are to start at 3 instead of at 4 o'clock. The rest of the festivities for Class Day will be carried out as usual. The Baccalaureate Sermon will be given by President Lowell in Appleton Chapel Sunday, June 17, at 4 P. M. Immediately following, President and Mrs. Lowell will hold a reception...
...urged lately by some who, being of revolutionistic turn of mind, like to see any change, whatever it may be that we adopt "America" as our national anthem instead of the more martial song to which we now pay reverence. One reason set forth is that the "Star Spangled Banner" is well enough as an anthem in the bloody times of war, but in peace we need some more dulcet sentiment. Another is that "America" is well suited to the orchestration of the people's voices, whereas our present unlegalized national anthem is of too intricate a nature...
...other hand the "Star Spangled Banner," while revered by all, like the Sultan of Turkey, is, like the Sultan of Turkey, known to few. When the band or the orchestra strikes up the first bars, we stand, remove our hats, and begin valiantly with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed...