1965-01-01 - Harvard
Halftime
[March out to "Crimson Fight Song"]
Welcome to Harvard University, home of the humanities and a center of liberal education since l636. This afternoon the Columbia Band would like to salute some of the many prominent alumni whese deeds have made the name of Harvard a synonym for culture and humanism all over the world.
Everyone must surely remember the late William Randolph Hearst, class of '86, whose policy of accurate reporting is exemplified in his famous comment on the Spanish-American differences of l898: "You give me the pictures, I'll give you the war." Forming a typical Hearst tabloid, the Band salutes the well-known publisher's colorful journalistic style.
[Tabloid formation. Yellow Rose of Texas.]
Moving on to later and greater conflicts, the Band once again finds ,a Harvard alumnus in the thick of things, steering our foreign policy on a steady, if dangerous, course. Syngman Rhea of the Harvard Graduate School gave the tiny country of Korea a unity with no parallel in international politics...except perhaps the 38th.
[Band lines up on 38-Yard line. I Walk the Line.]
Many a Harvard man with no practical knowledge of politics has emerged from this great institution as a shining idealist, eager to impress his noble sentiments on the U.S. government. One such is the Law School's Robert Welch, who, unfortunately, tends to look at government policies from an unusual angle.
[Right angle formation. All Right With Me.]
Despite Mr. Welch's pronouncements, America has come close to establishing peace in this world through the sane and able efforts of our Secretary of Defense, Harvard Fellow McGeorge Bundy. By using napalm bombs and other nonviolent devices, Mr. Bundy's Defense Department does much to maintain law and order amid the burning tensions and huts of Vietnam.
[Burning hut formation. Don't Want to Set the World On Fire.]
These are some of the great men whom the liberal training and the cultural atmosphere of Cambridge have molded. Having shown you the real results of a Harvard education, the Band would now like to salute a school which is, perhaps, somewhat wiser in its teaching of the liberal arts. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Columbia College Alma Mater.
[C Formation. Sans Souci.]