Word: processional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the minister of the six...
The amorphous procession of academics, divines, politicians, and sundry associates of the University will bring three centuries of tradition with it during the march into today's Commencement exercises In its distinctly Harvard spirit if not specific forms, the 314th Commencement will be very much like the first.
May Day parades are hardly designed to celebrate the bonds of friendship between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Yet in Tbilisi, Communist marchers repeatedly slowed their procession to applaud members of the Cleveland Orchestra, peering like conventioneers from the windows of the Hotel Tbilisi. As one Tbilisian put it, inviting the...
But despair not. You can uplift the fallen kite-flier by going to the Graduate School of Design's annual kite-flying contest tomorrow. Schneider's Band leads the grand procession from Robinson Hall at 2 p.m. and will arrive at the Charles at 2:30.
The wet snow on the first day of the march fed this quiet emotion. The students trudged through the slush all day Friday and through much of the night feeling brave and somewhat martyred. The march ended Saturday in a solemn procession to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two...