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...mariners puzzled over a molten glow in the eastern sky. Over the roar of the freeway, motorists heard the unmistakable crack of rifle fire, the chilling stutter of machine guns. Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement. From the air, whole sections of the sprawling city looked as if they had been blitzed...
Earnest A. Booton, professor of Anthropology, declined to cerement on the book, saying "This is an issue for the men in Social Relations...
Harvard Commencement is the oldest and most dignified cerement in the United States, excepting certain ecclesiastical rites. The word Commencement is simply a translation of the Latin "inceptio," and means that you then commence Bachelor or Master of Arts or whatever academic rank you are entering. The ceremony has come down to us directly from the medieval universities...
...This cerement surpasses in interest and importance any that accompanies the investigate of ruler or significant they may be." This was the statement of the Honorable John H. Clifford, President of the Board of Overseers, at the inauguration of President Eliot on October 19, 1869. Preceded by a huge retinue of University and government officials, the procession formed at Gore Hall "at the proper time, and at 2 3-4 o'clock P. M., moved to the church of the First Congregational Society,: where the ceremonies were held...
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