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...Puritan colonies tried to suppres time-honored holidays like Christmas an-Midsummer's Day. Thanksgiving was pretty good substitute for the former and the people insisted on making Harvard Commencement a substitute for the latter. By the early eighteenth century, Harvard Commencement had become a "riot" Every graduate came if he possibly could, and those who had no right of admission to the Meetinghouse (on the site of Lehman Hall) where the degrees were conferred came out to watch the procession and see the sights. Cambridge common was covered by tonts of huck-sters, cheap-jacks, Indian basket-sellers...
...Neutralized (by isolation) the Japanese Eighth, Eighteenth and Seventeenth Armies-approximately 250,000 men, by MacArthur's reckoning...
...whom quickly retreated to the jungle-robed hills. That the Japs had not pulled out of Dutch New Guinea was evident in the supplies captured at Humboldt Bay. Somewhere between Aitape-Hollandia and Madang (which was taken last week by Australian troops) are the remnants of the Japanese Eighteenth Army, reported to be elements of six divisions and one brigade (about 60,000 men). Reinforcement and supply are cut off. Like the Jap exiles on southern Bougainville, they have little choice but to live sparsely in the jungle, or to seek death in scattered attacks against the overwhelmingly strong American...
...Wallace Woodworth '24, in his tenth year as conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and his eighteenth with the Radcliffe Choral Society, will conduct...
...Eighteenth Class, which graduated Thursday, November 5, left 329 strong, while today's group numbers only 260. A 22-day recess will precede the opening of the Twentieth Class on January 6, 1944. They will receive the one-month training program like the graduating Class, which entered November 7. Most of the chaplains came here from civilian life, and are assigned to their posts after graduating from the school here...