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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under these circumstances the exercise attained a prominence proportional to the importance of those who spoke there, and the Auditorium of Sanders Theatre was invariably crowded. The demands of other activities of graduation for more attention have in recent years caused some difficulty in regard to the date of the affair. The use of Friday of Commencement Week has been found to be impractical, for the competition of the crew races that day is strong, and the fact that Commencement and all its ceremonies are past has tended to make the day something of an anticlimax, although the quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

...selected this year for the offices are in line with the distinguished tradition of the past; and the change of date brings the exercises at a time when most of the graduating class is still in Cambridge and able to attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

...other girls. Ethel Waters sings in her husky, exciting Negro voice. The story of backstage life is tedious, archaic, complicated. The music is about what you would get in a drawing-room operetta. In spite of these drawbacks, this picture is the most interesting of its type to date. Best shot: the ballet coming down a flight of stairs in feathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Song-&-Dancies | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...they had come for 15 dukes before him. And with them came wives and children, for the coming-of-age festivities of England's Premier Duke & Earl were to last four days, were to be unparalleled in Arundel's history Dukes for of splendor Norfolk and date lavish their titles from hospitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Arundel | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Dukes of Norfolk date their titles from 1483, Earls of Arundel from 1139. Arundel Castle, many times rebuilt, was a stout stronghold in King Alfred's time. Many, therefore, were the traditions to be observed last week by England's Norfolk, and to their strict observance he diligently attended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Arundel | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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