Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University students have always taken sufficient interest in politics to march, in processions with red fire, horns, and other means of attracting public attention, all, supposedly, for the greater glory of the Eagle or the Star. In the past these parades have been things almost to be feared; the march was lit with red torch-flares and the marchers with hard cider or good Sandy McDonald supplied by the eager campaign managers, and the combination often went to the heads of the participants and led them to unlawful acts...
...torchlight parade for Harvard Republicans equipped in the traditional manner with free supplies of red fire and gasoline torches, as well as a 20 piece band, will start its march at the Freshman gymnasium tonight at 7 o'clock. The objective of the marchers will be Convention Hall on St. Botolph street in Boston...
...Republican parade will start from M. I. T. tonight at approximately the same time as the Harvard march. These simultaneous parades often gave rise to riots in the past when the rival groups neared each other in the Back Bay district. But since the well-known invasion of individual rights, motor policemen have accompanied each procession. Tonight two officers will precede the Harvard columns...
Hundreds Expected to March...
Five hundred men are expected to be in the line of march when it sets forth from the Square. The total has generally been increased to many times that number by the time the parade reaches Harvard bridge. The band will lead the way, followed by the marchers and men in automobiles...