Word: band
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Schneider's Band...
...college songs which opened part two of the programme were sung with great snap and vigor. The Skating Song appealed to the audience particularly and Schneider's Band created great merriment...
...many years. Since the civil war he has been stationed in Idaho and has had charge of the Indians in that district. Gen. Crook then said: In former years, treachery has been extremely prevalent among the Indians. It was their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this as the only means of getting back their country from the Whites. When they saw the hopelessness of their task, they were won over by the specious promises of the white men to care for and feed them. Now they...
...custom of having college organizations furnish music at the winter meetings is rapidly growing in popularity. Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale have all adopted this plan, and the brass bands of those colleges are taking measures to make its execution successful. We have a band that can undoubtedly vie with that of any other college; why, then, should we not adopt this plan also? It certainly would be a very enjoyable feature, and would add much to the pleasure of the meetings. We hear from our brass band only too seldom. It is true that...
Efforts are being made at Cornell to have the brass band play at the winter meeting...