Word: processional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The amorphous procession of academics, divines, politicians, and insundary 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 in specific forms, the 312th Commencement will be very much like the first.
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 ministers of the six...
The ceremonial procedures evolved slowly, and gradually grew in number. For a long while now, the University Marshal has officially opened Commencement with the call, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order," which follows the end of the procession. The Sheriff of Middlesex will then rise in his blue colonial garb...
He was folowed by a nondescript procession of lefties, all of them as earnest and inept as the starter. Together they were charged with 14 runs, 12 hits, and six walks. Egloff, the beginner in the series, was also the loser.
The ceremony will be preceded by the traditional procession--in full academic garb--of the officers and Faculty of the University, deans, honorally degree candidates, and distinguished guests, led by the University Marshal, J. Hampden Robb '21, and the She riffs of Middlesex and Suffolk counties. Graduating seniors will line...