Band Starts Training For Football Season

Having completed its summer activities with last Thursday's concert in the Yard, the Harvard University Band is now rounding into shape for the first game of the football season when a Naval Pre-flight Training School team opposes the Crimson in the Stadium.

Malcome H. Holmes '28, who is directing the band this year and Guy V. Slade 32, drillmaster of the band who devised many famous original drills while working with Leroy Anderson, report that the band is shaping up well except for a shortage in the percussion section.

Any man who knows the working end of a drumstick and can distinguish the business side of a field drum will get a rousing welcome when he turns out for the Friday afternoon marching workouts in Soldiers Field. These offer major athletic credit.

Expected to be slightly smaller than last year's organization, the band will direct its attentions this season to turning out better music and to more precise marching. In addition to patriotic services that are especially needed in war time, it expects to expand its former function which consisted mainly of playing at football games and athletic rallies.

Jere Mead '43, manager has indicated that the band will make the trip to New Haven for the Harvard-Yale game.