Word: ode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Week's festivities will begin at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, May 26, with the Phi Beta Kappa exercises in Fogg Museum's Large Lecture Hall. Class Day Exercises, including the tradition-reeking Class Oration, Poem and Ode in the House Triangle in the afternoon. The Senior Spread will take place in Lowell House Wednesday evening, preceded by a buffet supper in Kirkland House...
Commencing with a poem by class poet Tom Bridge, the rites include a song led by chorister Don Harting, a speech by orator John Corrigan, and an ode written by acting odist Richard N. Swift...
...still in college but with slight compromise all positions except that of poet can be adequately filled. The ivy orator is traditionally chosen by a competition; the singing of the words as well as the music of Fair Harvard is not a far cry from the peacetime class ode. President Conant admittedly has already made his baccalaureate address; yet surely there is no shortage of able speakers who can more than adequately take his place. A class super and dance are far from the impossible...
Died. Laurence Binyon, 73, poet. Orientalist ; in Reading, England. He was best known for his World War I ode. For the Fallen* which was widely popularized when broadcast in 1934 by the Prince of Wales at Armistice Day ceremonies. He was the British Museum's keeper of prints & drawings...
Graduation for this war-time Class of 1943 consisted merely of an abbreviated Class Day, a Senior supper, and the Valedictory. But, as Eric Larrabee wrote in his Ode; "Though the leaves of our laurels are withered and brown, We will bear them as though they were green...