Word: laird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laird Ball '04, President of the Harvard Alumni Association, is to preside at the Alumni Exercises, and some of the honorary degree recipients may add a few words to the formal addresses of President Conant and Governor Bradford. In case of rain, the Exercises will retreat to Sanders Theatre, but the Spreads will still be held beneath the sheltering awnings in the Yard...
Following the colors presentation, the president of the Alumni Association, Laird Bell '04, and the president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, Ralph Lowell '12, will mark the metamorphosis from undergraduate to alumnus...
Following this, the Seniors will be welcomed to the Alumni, represented by Laird Bell '04, retiring president of the Alumni Association, and Ralph Lowell '12, new president of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The program will be completed with the singing--to the tune of "Fair Harvard"--of the Class Ode, written by Harold C. Fleming '44, and directed by Chorister Whitson M. Overcash...
...with conscientious trappings of history. The action runs from 1866 to 1874 and is bound up with the bloody struggle in Louisiana between Negro freedmen, corrupt carpetbaggers and diehard slave owners. The leading figures are exquisite: evil Hugh Duncan, who employs the terrorist Knights of the White Camellia, and Laird Fournois, masterful friend of the black...
...moment of misguided calculation, Laird marries Hugh's cousin Sabrina and tries to forget his passion for the golden-skinned Denise. This turns out to be un necessary for Sabrina conveniently goes crazy. But Hugh, too, has noted the tiger ish Denise, and Laird has to defend him self against various attempts at assassina tion, including one by a whole troop of Klansmen. Meanwhile he rebuilds the old Fournois estate and goes to the legislature on the vote of his Negro constituents. But he finds Reconstruction politics too hopelessly corrupt to play. In the end he loses all-except...