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...felt that more emphasis should be placed on the ceremony of transfer of the Class Banner from the Senior Officers to the Freshmen; that definite action should be taken to assure more effective cheering; that, perhaps, the exercises might be improved by the introduction of some new feature, such as a humorous speaker from the twenty-fifth Reunion Class; and that, to insure efficient presentation of the program, some executive from the Senior Class be placed in complete charge of the exercises...
Class Day originally was the occasion at which the Seniors joined the 'vast body of alumni,' handing over to some representative of the Freshman class the traditional banner. Last year both of these simple portions of the exercises were slighted. Aside from the speeches, the most whole-hearted part of the afternoon was the confetti, or better grass battle in which a siege of pink paper concluded a somewhat incomplete occasion. It was with difficulty that a Freshman was found to accept the time-honored banner...
...savings were gone and they went out giving concerts with an eye to the boxoffice. The blue-&-white sailor costumes which the boys are wearing for the U. S. concerts are symbolic of the secular turn their programs have taken. (In Washington last week they sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Dixie.") Proceeds from their U. S. tour, to be taken in a bus labeled "Wiener Sängerknaben Special," will go to the school, not to the boys. Yehudi Menuhin still asks for a strawberry ice-cream soda when he has finished a violin recital. When the Viennese boys...
...William Norris of Nebraska opened his speaking tour for Governor Roosevelt in Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House last week, his voice was to be broadcast. Somebody blundered. The Senator spoke into dead microphones. Next day Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record shrieked with an eight-column banner: THE RADIO FAILED! FULL TEXT OF SENATOR NORRIS' SPEECH IN THIS NEWSPAPER...
...Congressional Directory, copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Attorney General's last annual report, a World Almanac, and the latest volume of Supreme Court opinions. As the stone clumped down to rest for centuries the Marine Band closed the ceremony with "The Star-Spangled Banner...