Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Massachusetts town of Longmeadow, two great U.S. soldiers met last week. One was the Army's Chief of Staff Omar Bradley. The other was Corporal Edward George Wilkin, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, who died in action three years ago in Germany. His body had been brought home at last for reburial on Memorial Day. Standing beside the funeral caisson, General Bradley spoke a few quiet words of tribute. Then, to a nation which often before has forgotten its history, he delivered a reminder and warning...
Headed by Robert F. Bradford '23, chief marshal of the Alumni, the assembled members of the reunion classes will form at 2 o'clock in the outer Yard and pass into the Theater after commencement dignitaries on the Widener steps review the pageant...
...series of buffet luncheons under tents in the Yard. Eleven classes dating back to 50 years ago will hold official reunion spreads, and members of seventy other classes will be present for the day's activities. Special dignitaries of the day are slated for entertainment at the Chief Marshal's luncheon in the Fogg Museum...
Occasionally, as last year, a note of political significance has entered the proceedings. In 1743, Samuel Adams, speaking to a Commencement Day audience that included the Governor of the Colony, said, "It is lawful to resist the chief magistrate if the state cannot otherwise be preserved," and a Harvard graduation became one of the first sounding boards for the American Revolution. Now, very much as two hundred years ago, a lot of people look to the Harvard Yard on the second Thursday of June. The dross and the libations have been diverted to other days of the year; the original...
...last week that its football team plays Harvard on October 2. Art Valpey, now a veteran of four months coaching in Cambridge, thought that was a natural and encouraging attitude. "We have "certain advantages," he mused and passed on to the problems. The post of Jayvee football coach, which Chief Boston '37 resigned two weeks ago, is still open and will not be filled until the middle of the summer, Valpey says. "The new assistant will probably be from the Harvard family or from one of the Eastern high schools because we need balance rather than more men who know...