Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headlining the festivities will be Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Rita Rio, and Albert Ammons, who have been engaged to supply the musical part of the program. Eldridge, colored orchestra leader form Chicago's "three Deuces" will play his famous swing trumpet to the accompaniment of a local orchestra...
Representing the world of sport, Buddy Hassett of the Bees will speck, according to present plans of the Smoker Committee, while Neal O'Hara, columnist for the Boston Traveler, will be the master of ceremonies for the athletic features of the program...
Members of the American Civilization groups in all of the other seven houses and in the Union are invited to attend the program...
Still very much in the experimental stage, the program, when extended to Harvard, will follow closely the present one at M.I.T., where 20 students are already taking their dual flying instruction at the East Boston and Norwood Airports. M.I.T. is providing the ground school instruction while the C.A.A. has hired three members of the E. W. Wiggins school for the aviation instruction...
This statement seems to imply that the Department of the Classics is somewhat of a laggard in the attempt to combine its own field with other related fields in a general program of humanism. The exact opposite is the truth. The first combined field of the sort described was not History and Literature but "Literature," in which either Greek or Latin is combined with some Modern Language. This plan was initiated by members of the Departments of the Classics and Modern Languages in 1903, History and Literature following in 1906. I happened to be a member of both committees...