Word: processional
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With that declaration of belief and practical politics-meant to appeal to moderates both within and without the Republican Party-Pennsylvania's Governor William Warren Scranton, 46, threw himself headlong into the G.O.P. contest for this year's presidential nomination. In so doing, he injected a rush of...
Leaving Delhi last week, a special train crawled slowly through a yellow haze of summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night...
The amorphous procession of academics, devines, 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 specific forms, the 313th 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 Marshall 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...