Word: kirklanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning at 11:30 o'clock this morning with the literary exercises in the Kirkland House triangle, Class Day, gayest festival of the Harvard year, will be celebrated all today and far into the night. The age-old confetti battle in the Stadium and the second of the Harvard-Yale baseball series in the afternoon, are other highlights of the holiday program, in which graduating Seniors and their guests, share the spotlight with the reunion classes back in Cambridge for a week of renewal of the old ties...
...ballads of the Southern mountain folk have been kept in cold storage since the 17th Century. The hillbillies have inherited not only ballads, but also the tradition of creating them. For three years, Dr. Edwin Capers Kirkland, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, has, like Author Thomas, chased folk songs deep into the Southern Appalachians. Dr. Kirkland has found that twangy-voiced mountain singers and guitar pickers are making ballads from yesterday's newspaper headlines...
After dinner in the Houses the alumni will assemble in Kirkland House triangle for a concert by the Glee Club and the Instrumental Club, which will end at 9:45 o'clock...
...present a resident tutor of Kirkland House, Jones will leave for Europe in July to study the general political situation...
Reshuffling of the University architectual set-up north of Kirkland Street continues as the new Hemenway gymnasium nears completion. Built on the former site of Gannett House of the Law School, the new building will replace the old Hemenway gymnasium, which was demolished to provide for the Littauer Center of Public Administration will probably be completed by October...