Word: pageant
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Yesterday was the 63d anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt. While many states have already officially proclaimed October 27th as Roosevelt Day, Massachusetts apparently has not yet done so. For while New York City saw fit to observe the date with numerous meeting, banquets, and a pageant, the University, which likes to speak of the late ex-president as the "greatest Harvard man", let the day pass without any mention, official or otherwise. But would it not be worth while to ascertain whether undergraduate opinion is not in favor of observing the date by some simple annual ceremony...
...grand pageant will be presented representing the flag which was hoisted over Washington's headquarters on January 1, 1776. Following the addresses there will be motion pictures and singing by the University Glee Club...
...Flag in History, Pageant...
...will sing tomorrow night in Sanders Theatre at eight o'clock, where public exercises will be held in commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Cambridge. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80 and Mr. William Roscoe Thayer '81 will deliver historical addresses, and a pageant will be presented. The exercises will be open to the public at large, but especially to students in the University...
There will also be a grand pageant representing the flag that was hoisted over Washington's headquarters on January 1. 1776, which, in the opinion of Mr. Cummings, was the first American flag to be seen in Cambridge. Moving pictures will follow the addresses and representatives of the various foreign speaking races will be present...