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The University Instrumental Clubs at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, hold their mid-winter trials at the Music Building. Musicians are tested for four clubs - the Banjo Club, Mandolin Club, Vocal Club and Specialty Division. Instruments eligible in the trials are, for the Banjo Club, the tenor banjo, straight banjo, piano, traps, saxophone, cornet, flute and piccolo, and for the Mandolin Club the mandolin, mandola, mando-cello, guitar, violin, cello and base viol. For the Specialty Division, unusual instruments including xylophone, accordion, Hawaian guitar and musical saw are considered.
Norwood Poindexter is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success as jazz saxophonist Pony Poindexter, recording with Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon and others.
The Savoy Orpheans record The Student Prince - Selection, The Student Prince Waltz, Speak, Wonder and Pigtail Alley for HMV Records in Hayes, Middlesex, UK.
Neal Cassady is born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He will become an influential figure in the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, often associated with The Merry Pranksters and The Grateful Dead.