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...clock--Stadium exercises: Ivy Oration, G. McN Gates; cheering song by Glee Club; presentation of class banner to 1930; singing of "Fair Harvard"; confetti battle...
With the roof garlanded with strings of Japanese lanterns and the Sanctum an oasis of lights and colors, the CRIMSON will be one of the resorts to which Seniors and their families will turn their steps after the last of the confetti has been thrown in the Stadium this afternoon. The CRIMSON spread will begin at 5.30 o'clock, immediately after the afternoon celebration, but, unlike the greater number of other spreads, it will continue until midnight...
...Louis had a sticky valve, Colonel Lindbergh hopped from Washington to Long Island in an Army pursuit plane, transferred (at Mitchel Field) to an amphibian plane, alighted on New York Harbor. Long before the hero touched foot on the island of Manhattan, the air was full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said...
...clock--Stadium exercises: Ivy oration, G. McN. Gates; cheering; song by Glee Club; presentation of class banner to 1930; singing of "Fair Harvard"; confetti battle...
...college Commencement is rightly an occasion for festival jollity, and Seniors will make the most of Memorial Hall Monday night and the confetti warfare in the Stadium on Tuesday. But this passes, and the emotion of the average capped-and-gowned candidate at the Commencement exercises will partake more of the serious than of the lightsome. Harvard College has given of its best to these men. Whatever they had she has given them again an hundredfold. To a greater or a lesser degree they have begun to grow up. At the moment of departure there may be in the heart...