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Fifty members of the University Band will journey to Philadelphia next weekend to furnish music for the representatives of the Associated Harvard Clubs assembled in the annual conference.
As guests of the Philadelphia Harvard Club, the bandmen wil give four concerts on Saturday, May 19. Entraining for the meeting Friday evening, the Band will arrive in Philadelphia Saturday morning to give its first entertainment to the assembled graduates. In the afternoon, music will be furnished during the Harvard-Pennsylvania baseball game, and during the regatta to be held on the Schuylkill in the early evening, the musicians will again entertain.
Before some 6,000 graduates assembled at the banquet of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday night, the Band will render its final concert, featuring a new song, "Yo-Ho" by R. K. Fletcher '08, composer of "The Gridiron King" and "Soldiers Field."
Throughout the day, modern popular music and old popular marches known to the graduates will be played, and it is expected that "Yo-Ho" will be repeated several times.
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