Word: processionals
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Of all the forms into which Harvard political enthusiasm evolved perhaps the best known is the "torchlight parade," first conceived in 1868 in the campaign of Grant and Seymour. Its features of orginality, its full panoply of plug hat, black bottle, and class uniform, seem to have been due not...
In 1872 the wrath of the Faculty descended upon a proposed torchlight procession, decreeing that if one was conducted it must not be as representatives of the University. Accordingly with true Harvard deference for University authority, a transparency was carried by the Class of 1873 in the procession, which bore...
An increased freedom of speech figured in the 1876 procession which was notable for its transparencies. Some of the planks announced were "Hayes and Wheeler and Reform in the Faculty, Honesty in Policies and Cribs in Examinations" and "Hard Money and Soft Electives." Unusual patriotism figured in this 1876 procession...
Up to the 1884 campaign there had never been any question as to which party the torchlight procession represented,--Harvard had always been Republican. In 1884, however, the Union of the Independent and Democratic parties injected a new question into the plans for the procession. Was there to be one...
North Carolina fell before the Eli eleven last year by the score of 53 to 0. Comparison of the two games shows that the Yale team this year, judged on the basis of the opening contest, lacks much of the finish and power that marked last year's championship eleven...