Word: boylston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First in line will be Harvard's armed forces who start marching at noon after assembling on Berkeley Street between Beacon and Boylston and who will be reviewed along the parade route by Governor Saltonstall and Mayor Tobin among others...
...Army ROTC, the units will then march from their assembly points near Widener Library, Memorial Chapel, and University Hall across the Yard and through Johnson Gate. From there, to the martial strains of the Fort Devens band, the column will proceed through the Square and make its way down Boylston Street, to the river...
...eleventh-hour canvass of the local merchants revealed this stampede, at the same time unveiling the Harvard man's gift-sending eccentricities. According to the Boylston Street telegraph office, Yardlings and upperclassmen, during the past week, have been deluging every corner of the country with messages of filial affection. However, the war has put an end to the Mother's Day worldwide telegraphing exploits carried on in pre-war years, which penetrated as far as Africa, India, and China...
...States Army band from Fort Devens, the individual units will parade out of the Yard through the Johnson Gate in columns of massed batteries. With the band in the lead, the Harvard "Army and Navy," including a motorized battery of "75's" will march through the Square and down Boylston Street to Soldiers Field...
...Blind is quiet and country-like, little resembling its early self in the heart of South Boston. The first school of its kind in the country, it was conceived by Dr. John P. Fisher, who, tradition says, buttonholed an unfamiliar but handsome and able - looking young man on Boylston Street one day, and made him the first director on the spot. He was Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whose wife wrote the now-famous words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The institution was named after Col. Thomas H. Perkins, who was once asked by George Washington to accept...