Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Class Day week will get under way this evening at ten o'clock as the Senior Class holds its annual dance at Lowell House. Duke Ellington will play, with songstress Ivy Anderson as a feature...
Ushering in the myriad class activities of Class Day, the Seniors will assemble Wednesday morning at 11:30 o'clock in the Kirkland House triangle, for their literary exercises, including the delivery of an oration, poem...
...with the singing of "Fair Harvard." Immediately afterwards the confetti battle begins, the audience in the stands participating along with alumni and Seniors on the ground in tossing streamers and confetti. Then the alumni march to the baseball field for the second Harvard-Yale game at 3:30 o'clock. After the ball game there will be supper and dancing in the Houses until 8 o'clock, and then a concert by the Harvard Glee Club and University Orchestra in the Kirkland House triangle. Dancing will be resumed in the Houses...
...Gentlemen, this examination will end promptly in twenty minutes." Pens scratch paper desperately. The Mem Hall clock tolls the death-knell,--twelve o'clock noon. Fifteen more minutes; then ten; then five. People are handing in their blue books, strolling out the door. Vag scrawls the last word in his blue book. Slowly he puts his pen away, closes his book, puts on his coat, drops his blue book in the box, and wanders out into the sunlight,--into freedom. All through...
...There he worked on his illustrations for Tennyson's poems (his musical setting to Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears, sung in a high thin voice, was long a tear-jerker). He was a prodigious letter writer, in Rome used to rise at four or five o'clock, write 35 letters before breakfast. In his Villa Tennyson at San Remo he died...