Kristiansund, Norway, July 12, 1906. A photograph on a postcard shows a large crowd greeting an arriving vessel, whose passengers are standing on the deck. Some, surprisingly, are holding instruments. They are, in fact, the 48-member, all-male St. Olaf College Band, who are in the midst of an immensely popular month-long tour of Norway, which served as a homecoming for both band members and the college itself. Welcome to Back at St. Olaf: I’m Evan Atchison, and these are the stories from the Hill.

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