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George Russell Agassiz '84, President of the Board of Overseers, in presenting the insignia of office to President James Bryant Conant, spoke in part as follows...
...University Marshal, Philip P. Chase '99, conducts the Custodians of the College Insignia: The Comptroller, Arthur L. Endicott '94, with the keys, and The Director of the University Library, Robert P. Blake, with the Charter. Seals, and Records followed by the Fellows of Harvard College...
...Agassiz presents the insignia of office to the President. President Conant accepts the insignia...
...interests of historical accuracy, it is perhaps well that Professor Samuel Eliot Morison should begin investigating the authenticity of Harvard's multitudinous insignia. Posterity will no doubt delight in learning that the University letterhead was filched from a Newtowne vintner, or that the proud heraldry of the Weatmorly windows is merely the unacknowledged issue of a brandy label...
Bohemia has built a beautiful lake in its Grove. Sculptor Haig Patigian designed the altar at one extremity of this lake, which is an heroically shaped Owl-the Club's insignia ("Weaving spiders come not here"). Here the captured effigy of care is oared from across the lake in a medieval barge, and laid on a funeral pyre, where amidst much colorful ritual, he is cremated, to bother man no more-until next year. He is not buried...