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Memorial services will be held for the late Richard Norton '92 at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, today at 12.30 o'clock. Mr. Norton died in Paris on August 2, 1918, of pneumonia. He has long been known as the founder of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service...
...preparation now being made for various graduation festivities calls to mind the varied history of these exercises. The first Commencement was held in 1642, and the occasion shortly became an event of great moment. That the affair was properly solemn and sober may be judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled...
...President Lowell will attend a convention at New Haven held under the auspices of the League to Enforce Peace, at which the Covenant for the League of Nations will be discussed by many prominent citizens, including ex-President William Howard Taft, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and Hon. Herbert Parsons. The meeting is one of a series commencing on May 21, and ending on June 8, which is to include fifteen or sixteen states...
...Brookline Village Town Hall this evening, the Pierian Sodality Orchestra will give its first regular concert since the United States entered the war. The concert will be a part of a pageant to be held at the same place, and the music will include several light selections from popular operettas...
...Watertown, and one for the members of the University, to take place within the next two weeks. This will be given in the Union, the program being entirely a popular one. The first annual dinner of the orchestra, since the declaration of war, will be held at the Hotel Lenox on Saturday...