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...late as the Pentagon's Multi-mixmaster. Strategically, he argued, a force of 25 Polaris vessels cruising Europe's shallow coastal waters could not easily be destroyed by Soviet submarines or aircraft. Said Ricketts: "Each addi tional weapons system enhances the credibility of other systems." But R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor called it "mon strous military nonsense," and many other British defense officials agreed...
...ceremonial procedures evolved slowly, and gradually grew in number. For a long while now, the University Marshal has officially opened Commencement with the call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order," which follows the end of the procession. The Sheriff of Middlesex will then rise in his blue colonial garb, strike the stage three times with the scabbard of his sword and announce in a sharp Boston accent, "The meeting will be in order...
...order of the academic procession is as follows: the University Marshal, the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk Counties, the President and Fellows of the University, the Overseers, the Governor and his military staff, deans of the departments, honorary degree candidates, professors, other faculty members and officers of the University, former professors, Phi Beta Kappa orator and poet, trustees of the Hopkins Fund, preachers to the University, local ministers, United Ministry Members, college presidents, State Commissioner of Education, U.S. Congressmen, Armed Forces officers, State Supreme Court judges, Court of Appeals judges, Lieutenant Governor, president of Associated Harvard Clubs, former honorary recipients...
...ceremony will be preceded by the traditional procession--in full academic garb--of the officers and Faculty of the University, deans, honorally degree candidates, and distinguished guests, led by the University Marshal, J. Hampden Robb '21, and the She riffs of Middlesex and Suffolk counties. Graduating seniors will line the route of the procession in front of University Hall and up to the entrance of Tercentenary Theater, in the new Yard. In case of rain, ceremonies will be held in Sanders Theater...
When the procession ends about 10 a.m., the University Marshal will call: "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order." The sheriff will do so; and after the invocation and addresses in English and Latin by Lewis B. Kaden '63, Norman E. Thurston '63, and Whitney II. Garard 3L, President Pusey will admit the Class of 1963 "to the fellowship of educated...