Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public meeting to discuss the plans for the Cambridge pageant in the Stadium next June will be held in the old council chamber of the City Hall, Central square, on next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Professor G. P. Baker '87, who is preparing the detailed plans for the affair, will present an outline of his ideas. Mrs. Williard Reed will speak on the civic phases of the undertaking, and Mr. Elmer H. Bright, chairman of the finance committee, will preside...
There is every indication that the plans for the pageant will be carried through successfully. The work of preparing the various spectacles has already been started, and the cast is soon to be selected from all parts of Cambridge, children being used in the parts as far as possible. The rehearsals will be held in the various school buildings...
Plans are being made for the production of a Cambridge pageant to take place in the Stadium next spring. Professor G. P. Baker '87, of the Department of English, who has helped produce several pageants, is preparing to write the book. Those who have the pageant in charge plan to take advantage of the impressive historical setting of Cambridge and the opportunity offered by the Stadium for staging such a spectacle to picture to the children of this vicinity especially, the part that Cambridge has played in American history. It is the intention, furthermore, to have children take part...
...Both Harvard and Yale are such venerable institutions that it is inspiring visit them. By a singular coincidence have visited both Yale and Harvard most opportune times to learn of their histories. At the Yale Pageant I go very clear conception of the past history of the New Haven institution and here at Harvard I have had the good forth to attend the John Harvard birthday service in the Chapel. We have some pretty fine institutions in the South even though Harvard does beat some of the in football...
...afternoon more than 40,000 people witnessed the brilliant pageant which was the main feature of the anniversary celebration. More than 8,000 persons took part in the spectacle which reproduced the living pictures of some of the most stirring and typical events in the history of Yale University. More than $60,000 was expended in preparing the pageant and thousands of alumni were attracted to New Haven to witness it. A celebration by the people of New Haven on Saturday night and an address by President Hadley from the College pulpit yesterday morning concluded the order of events...