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...Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile...
...annual classic on the Thames, as the sporting writers have it, marks the end of a memorable Commencement week. Long after the names of this or that speaker or graduate have been forgotten, the memory of the heat will linger. Honors and oratory, spreads and dinners have developed a sense of weariness and have evoked bad temper rather than enthusiasm...
...green tickets, and of memorizing an intricate program of events. He has safely established his retinue of visitors at convenient or less convenient distances, and snatched a brief sleep after a strenuous and brilliant evening. The program of the day gives the center of the stage to 1923. Undergraduates linger only under tolerance, for the responsible function of ushering or the irresponsible one of satisfying an idle curiosity. The assembled graduates may lord it on Thursday to their hearts content, and in their respective reunions today outside Cambridge. But when they gather this afternoon it will be as mere onlookers...
...music on the whole is not quite up to the "Shuffie Along" standard. But even so it is above the average. "Running Wild", and "Dandy" linger long after the final curtain. "Planning" is less catchy and not staged as well as most of the numbers. There are sentimental songs that provide harmonies, such as "My Old Man", and "My Red Rose". While they bring applause they are not bright sports in the production. "I'm the Sheriff" is an amusingly staged number, where nimble dancing and grotesque posturing brings comic effects...
About this time, in colleges where certain traditions linger, the Freshmen are being received in to fellowship of classes by some such welcoming process as a pole-rush, tug-of-war, or cap-burning. Though lacking those familiar methods, Harvard has a substitute that serves in a somewhat similar capacity. The election today is in its way a formal recognition of the coming-of-age of the Freshman class. It is a reception at which the Class, Personified by its voting, presents itself to the rest of the college, and discloses it tastes and its character. If it goes...