Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Glee Club will sing college songs between bulletins, and the Harvard Bohemian Orchestra will play. Smoking will be permitted, and in every respect it will be made a popular affair. Graduates of the University may obtain tickets at the door...
...last three years the club has omitted this final meeting, although it was formerly a regular institution, and an enjoyable ending of the season's work. This year, however, it is hoped that the old custom can be revived and that it will be made as successful a social affair as it has been in past years. Professor Taussing will speak and other prominent graduates who were members of the Pierian will respond to toasts. H. Schurz '97 will be toastmaster...
...that examinations were omitted on June merely in order that the students might join the parade, and also the fact all members of the University owed it to themselves and to the graduates to show sufficient enthusiasm to aid the Harvard men who are at the head of the affair. He concluded by saying that students might arrange to wear special costumes or not, as they pleased...
Since the parade means a good deal to the people of Cambridge, with whom the students have always been on such good terms, it is hoped that the students will interest themselves in the affair and do all in their power to make it a success. In the provisional list of the final examinations no examinations were scheduled for June 3, 80 there can be no drawback as far as they are concerned. Dean Briggs has received letters from Dean Ames of the Law School and Dean Richardson of the Medidal School expressing their interest in the affair and their...
...success of the junior dinner has brought up the question of the advisability of the underclassmen taking up such an affair. In a reply to a communication urging the extension of this custom, you favored holding a sophomore dinner, but made objection to a similar meeting of the freshman class on the ground that the class was seldom sufficiently united to make the event a success. With its special organizations, in addition to its athletic teams, is not the freshman class, toward the close of the year, really more united than the sophomore class? In any case, would...