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...strange tale--this story of a Princetonian-CRIMSON picnic on the banks of the Charles celebrated by a special issue of the Harvard paper burlesquing the break between the two Universities. Older and more experienced heads in positions of influence in these worthy institutions might well profit by the example set by their young colleagues. --Yale Daily News...
Driving through the beautiful country that Dickens so liked, the Pickwick passengers will terminate their tour at The Weld, the Anderson estate in Brookline. Here amid great natural beauty, the picnic in "Pickwick" will be duplicated in the open air theatre on the spacious grounds. Assembled to watch this scene will be many members of the Harvard faculty and the entire membership of the Boston Dickens' Fellowship. Here, old friends like Tony and Sam Weller, the charming, Wardle family, Joe the fat Boy and others in the immortal galaxy will saunter about the grounds as through on the English countryside...
...custom for the Senior and Freshman pictures to be taken on the same afternoon. The Seniors, after their picture had been taken, would hold up the next picture until the first year men had thrown out enough money to them to pay for the Senior class Picnic...
...When the Picnic was abolished, the Senior beggings became occasions for interclass riots. These reached a climax last year, when the damage to Widener and to caps and gowns made it advisable to do away with the ceremony...
Clarence Dillon, investment banker: "Mortgage Bond Salesman Josiah Kirby (now in Atlanta penitentiary) used to hire special trains to picnic his salesmen. Last week 700 employes and officials (all male) of the National Cash Register Co., which I bought a year ago, (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) sailed for Havana on the Holland-American liner Volendam, chartered especially for them...