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...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...
...Oration. The Band saluted the Senior with their specially-arranged Service Medley, to introduce the Ode, led by Chorister George R. Clay...
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...
...Class Oration, and John L. Hoffman '43 will give the Class Poem. Selections by the Glee Club are planned as the next number on the program, to be followed by the Ivy Oration, presented by Joseph C. Scott '43. The assembled students are to join in singing the Ode, written by Eric Larrabee '43, with George R. Clay '43 the Chorister, conducting to close the afternoon...