Word: june
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...formal opening and dedication of the new Technology buildings on June 12, 13 and 14 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of that institution. A vast and elaborate masque and pageant, "Technology and Civilization," a three-day river carnival, together with many meetings, exhibitions and reunions will make this one of the greatest celebrations ever held in New England...
...greatest single feature of the entire dedication will be the pageant and masque which will be staged in the great court of the new buildings on June 13. The theme running throughout the masque will be the gradual conquering of the forces of nature by man. The thousand or more Technology students taking part will represent chaos gradually forming into definite elements and leading up to twentieth-century civilization. The pageant, which will be shown between the scenes of the masque will depict Technology's influence upon civilization and her relationship to the advancement of making. Following this there will...
...celebration will start on Monday, June 12, with a gathering of all Technology men, past and present, in Huntington Hall, for a farewell ceremony to the Rogers Building. The entire body will then march to the embankment, where it will be met by a small fleet of motor boats. This crossing of the river will be made an aquatic jubilee. Progress in naval construction will be shown by the latest models of many types of vessels. It is planned to have torpedo boat destroyers and submarines in manoeuvres in the Basin, working in conjunction with fast motor boats and hydroplanes...
Even a cursory glance at the list of nominees for election this June shows plainly that over emphasis has been laid upon capitalistic representation--too few names from the academic and professional fields appear. And since there is this over-representation of the capitalists among the nominees, the probable result of the elections will be an equally unbalanced board. Such a result, while perhaps not in itself disastrous, cannot fall, in the long run, to be deleterious to the University. Harvard is not, and has never been, solely a rich man's college. The University is, above all, cosmopolitan...
Even thought it is too late to change the present list of nominees, the choice in June ought to be made with particular attention to this point...