Word: dray
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Garrison, and Arnold Scott. A large white placard, on which were the words "What would Cambridge do without us?" was carried in the front rank. Between '97 and '98 came the feature of the procession-Old John with his donkey and cart mounted on a four-horse dray. Ninety-eight was led by Marshal Norman W. Cabot and his four aids, P. S. Dalton, S. L. Fuller, Gerrish Newell and J. L. Knox, who had blue and white toy balloons in their button holes. The first ranks of the class kept time with rattle bones, and most...
...committee have asked men to subscribe twenty-five cents each to hire the old man a dray for the parade, and these subscriptions are to be left at Leavitt and Peirce's. So far very little money has been raised, and unless students are willing to come forward and help, the expense must be borne by the committee. The money asked of each man is very little, and the parade cannot be truly successful so far as Harvard is concerned without our faithful old "mascot," John the Orangeman...
...brought to the attention of the committee that Harvard would not be adequately represented in the parade on June 3 if Old John did not take part. It has therefore been decided that, as he would not be able to keep up with his donkey and cart, a low dray be hired for the occasion, upon which John with his donkey and cart may be mounted. This dray with four horses will cost...
First came the Seniors, dressed in long red gowns with black Oxford caps. They had with them on a dray, a model of the Harvard statue, supported by burlesque personations of a butcher, a cooper, and a grocer, in allusion to the father and two step-fathers of John Harvard, who left their little fortunes to his mother, whence the property passed to him to endow finally the infant college. The group was labelled "Johnnie Harvard's Pas." The Seniors carried also a transparency worded as follows: "We are the oldest living graduates...
...years. Amid the Freshmen ranks came the Navy Club, a club which existed during the first of this century. The thirty laziest men in the class belonged and the most supremely lazy was high admiral. In the parade this favored individual was borne on a red divan on a dray...