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...Route" is the broad Moscow avenue down which the Packard limousines from the Kremlin streak every morning before dawn, carrying commissars and marshals to their country dachas after the night's work. Everyone who lives on The Route lives under special surveillance by the NKVD (now the MGB and MVD), and the NKVD has cause for suspicion. The U.S. visitor, James Ferguson, is introduced by his merry Russian friend Mitka to a significant little group of people who meet on The Route as conspirators...
This year's commencement audience will hear the traditional Latin salutation, and one of two English orators chosen by the Committee. The June 5 exercises will "equal in pageantry and impressiveness any in the history of the University," Packard predicted...
Frederick C. Packard, Jr '20, associate professor of Public Speaking and member of professor Hammond's committee, believes that speaking at the exercise "is one of the most enviable honors a student may attain. Nearly all of Harvard's famous sons," he added, were Commencement speakers...
Cotton Mather, Josiah Quincy, Harrison Gray Otis and Abbot Lawrence Lowell are only a few of the more prominent veterans of the Commencement platform, according to Packard...
...committee is requesting department heads to submit the names of outstanding honors candidates who "have something to say, and may not know how to say it," Packard stated, but added that the trials are not limited to those recommended. Any honors candidate may register with the committee in March and participate in the competition...