Children Enjoy Concerts Given by R.O.T.C. Band Three Times Weekly
Title
Children Enjoy Concerts Given by R.O.T.C. Band Three Times Weekly
Description
Children gather to watch the band practice three times a week in the evenings.
Creator
Daily Nebraskan
Source
University of Nebraska, Library Media Services, 38/1/2 Mfilm AP2 D355, Mar. 6, 1927 - Feb. 5, 1929
Date
1927, Oct 28
Text
Children Enjoy Concerts Given by R.O.T.C. Band Three Times Weekly
Children who live on North Fourteenth street are the luckiest children in Lincoln, for three nights a week they have a band concert all to themselves. To explain, the R. O. T. C. band, during the football season, hold its rehearsals on the drill field between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets. Here it rehearses all its new marches and football tunes, practices marching tactics and drill formations.
Any Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday night a passer-by may see an enchanted group of tiny tots ranging in ages from one to ten years, trailing the band as it marches about the field, yelling; singing and running about, mimicking the leader and the musicians, imagining, no doubt, that they too are playing the shiny horns and big drums.
One little chap, ragged of clothes but widee-eyed and beaming, has not missed a day since school started. He invariably steals up shyly and stands by a tree until the rest of his playmates arrive to keep him company.
Tiny chaps and big ones, dirty-faced and clean-faced, black, white, and indifferent shades, some dashing up proudly on scooters and others on roller skates, the banker’s baby and just plain Johnny O’Grady forget all previous distinctions and act just like any natural gang of children act when the band comes marching down the field playing a gay tune, heads up, instruments straight ahead, every man in step and in line.
It’s a safe venture to say a lot of grown-ups which they were small again when the see the children of fourteenth street playing make believe with the band.
Children who live on North Fourteenth street are the luckiest children in Lincoln, for three nights a week they have a band concert all to themselves. To explain, the R. O. T. C. band, during the football season, hold its rehearsals on the drill field between Twelfth and Fourteenth streets. Here it rehearses all its new marches and football tunes, practices marching tactics and drill formations.
Any Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday night a passer-by may see an enchanted group of tiny tots ranging in ages from one to ten years, trailing the band as it marches about the field, yelling; singing and running about, mimicking the leader and the musicians, imagining, no doubt, that they too are playing the shiny horns and big drums.
One little chap, ragged of clothes but widee-eyed and beaming, has not missed a day since school started. He invariably steals up shyly and stands by a tree until the rest of his playmates arrive to keep him company.
Tiny chaps and big ones, dirty-faced and clean-faced, black, white, and indifferent shades, some dashing up proudly on scooters and others on roller skates, the banker’s baby and just plain Johnny O’Grady forget all previous distinctions and act just like any natural gang of children act when the band comes marching down the field playing a gay tune, heads up, instruments straight ahead, every man in step and in line.
It’s a safe venture to say a lot of grown-ups which they were small again when the see the children of fourteenth street playing make believe with the band.
