Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gowns. Led by trumpeters and drummers, the procession will march through the Yard to Sanders Theatre, where the literary exercises will be held at 11.30. When the head of the procession reaches the steps of Memorial Hall it will halt, and the two files will separate, each member facing inward, thus forming two ranks with an open avenue between. The last two men the oldest members, will then pass up the aisle thus formed, and the others will follow in such a manner that the oldest members enter the floor of Sanders first and take the front seats. The undergraduate...
...taught except by example, or by turning a youth loose in a library? The most athletic readers in college usually, teach themselves. When Charles Summer's light was observed to burn late every night in the Harvard Yard, it was no professor, we may be sure, but an inward impulse and appetite that drove him to his long and delightful intercourse with the mester spirits of literature. --New York Times...
...through the Yard with the Junior members of the society in the lead, followed by other members in reverse order of seniority. When the head of the procession reaches the steps of Memorial Hall it will halt and each couple of men will separate and each member will face inward, thus forming an avenue through which will pass the oldest members at the end of the line, followed in order of seniority by the other members. The first two rows of the balcony have been set aside for invited guests, while the second balcony will be open to the public...
...Yard to Sanders Theatre, where the literary exercises will be held at 11.30. This is one-half hour earlier than the time of previous years. When the head of the procession reaches the steps of Memorial it will halt, and each couple of men will separate, each member facing inward thus forming two ranks with an open avenue between. The last two men, the oldest members, will then pass up the aisle, the others following them in reverse order, so that the oldest members enter the floor of Sanders first and take the front seats...