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...before hopping on a plane, she went to Fall River, donned a red evening gown and took the crown in the Miss Massachusetts pageant...
...last a few more days, perhaps a year. One reason has to do with ceremony. You remember Yeats' lines in "A Prayer for My Daughter"--"How but in custom and in ceremony/Are innocence and beauty born?" I like the idea that all these contributing professionals--the gown person, the cake person, the flowers person, the food person, the tent person, the music person, the God person--are coming together for an ancient purpose. They each know what to do. They know how things are supposed...
Twenty-five years after he left Cambridge in cap and gown, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs James H. Rowe III '73 will announce his resignation next week and leave Harvard later this summer, sources confirmed yesterday...
...gown rentals, mandatory for all graduating seniors, cost $45; class rings can run up to $760, and if a senior wants to memorialize his or her graduation with a yearbook at $70, a diploma frame and graduation announcements, the bill can really...
...technician running the machine had me strip down to the basics and slip on a blue hospital gown. No jewelry was allowed. My mind wandered to the thought of traditional Jewish burial garb, namely a simple white gown known as the kitel. All Jews leave earth as they arrived, that is, simple and unadorned...