Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want my inaugural as simple as we can stand. No blare of trumpets-a little music, you know-but no blare of trumpets. Just the singing of 'The Star-Spangled Banner...
Across the top of Grit's front page is the design which has been there since its first year, a rococo drawing of two pudgy cherubs having a tug-of-war with a long banner lettered GRIT. Each cherub has a quill pen behind his ear. Around the shoulders of one is slung a pastepot. The other carries a pair of shears. Strewn about the background are stacks of books, a globe, a telescope on a tripod, a gear wheel and an anvil (presumably symbolizing business & industry...
...Anniversary Number included an extra supplement devoted to Grit, its history, its family. Peering from the front page was a large photograph of Founder-Publisher Lamade whose white hair is the only sign of his age?73. He was a $12-a-week printer on the Williamsport Daily Sun & Banner in 1882 when Grit first appeared as the Banner's Saturday afternoon edition. It made a poor start. Its publishers were about to scrap it when Printer Lamade got two other men to help him buy it, publish it separately in another shop. Grit Publishing Co. was founded with...
...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...
...chief object of the ceremony in addition to providing light entertainment to the visitors consists in the presentation of the Class Banner to the Freshman Class. This is intended to symbolize the relinquishment of their duties as undergraduates by the Senior Class to the Freshman Class and to show that the Senior Class has now joined the body of Graduates, who have just marched into the Stadium, and are prepared to carry their share of the duties and responsibilities of Graduates of Harvard College...