Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...style to which he is accustomed. After all, the host was in the courtyard, surrounded by his three small daughters, cordially greeting the guests. "This is going to be very emotional," said Jones as she began her tour of the stables turned museum. Look, there is Diana's wedding gown. There, the handwritten draft of the earl's famous funeral oration. There, on a lakeside garden temple, is a plaque with Diana's words, "Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running, wherever they are." And, finally, on an island in the lake, unreachable...
...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...