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Word: dray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1886-1886
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...Dray with Fireworks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...Regiment Band and Drum Corps. Dray with Fireworks. Dray of Graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...School Drum Corps, J. A. Frye commanding. Dray with Fireworks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

...thirty laziest men in the class, of which the most supremely lazy was high admiral. About a dozen men dressed as sailors kept the memory of the club alive, and Mr. J. B. Blake '87, dressed in Admiral's uniform, lay on a red divan on a dray, - the laziest of the sluggards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

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