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...served in the Houses after which the parade will form for the Stadium where they will be met by the welcoming cheers. Roy W. Winsauer '36, will start the fete there with the Ivy Oration, and it will be finished by the singing of Fair Harvard and the confetti batle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day Exercises Today Mark Climax of Commencement Week | 6/17/1936 | See Source »

...parties finally came across a 100-yd. scar in the forest which looked as if a giant scythe had slashed diagonally down through the trees. At one end were a few lopped branches, at the other the crunched remnant of The Southerner's cabin. In between was a confetti of duralumin, mail, cloth, hunks of flesh. Part of a wing was wrapped around a tree 40 ft. off the ground. Blood stains began high on tree trunks, gradually descended until they smeared the stumps. Everywhere was the reek of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Into Arkansas Loblolly | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...Devil Is a Woman (Paramount). Marlene Dietrich is one of the most beautiful and dynamic actresses in Hollywood. Director Josef von Sternberg is an eccentric specialist who enjoys filling his camera lens with shadows, antique furniture, objects d'art and confetti. To most observers, these salient characteristics might suggest that, for the purpose of manufacturing profitable moving pictures, Director von Sternberg and Cinemactress Dietrich constituted less than an ideal partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...Stadium for the program beginning at 2 o'clock. Here Vincent Palmer will greet the assemblage with the Ivy Oration, followed by a stunt by the Class of 1910, the cheering for President Conant, the response by Conant, and coming to a conclusion with the usual savage confetti battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVING CLASS DAY EXERCISES OUT OF SANDERS FOR 1935 | 5/9/1935 | See Source »

Wednesday, Class Day, begins with exercises in the morning in the Eliot-Kirkland-Winthrop triangle, followed by an out-of-doors buffet luncheon. In the afternoon students and the various reuning classes parade to the Stadium, where the Confetti Battle and other similar epic events take place. After that comes the second of the Harvard-Yale baseball games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT WEEK PROGRAM ANNOUNCED | 4/17/1935 | See Source »

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