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...meeting on November 8 is open only to members of the University; preference will be given in seating to undergraduates in Harvard College. As the broadcasting must be punctual, all those attending will be expected to be seated before 8 o'clock, when President Conant will open the meeting...
...base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided: "I hate academic gowns." At 10 o'clock punctual officials glanced nervously at their watches, glanced again & again before Secretary Perkins, who had overslept at the President's House, hurried belatedly upon the scene...
Five minutes later, punctual little King Victor Emmanuel arrived, in the full dress uniform of an Italian General. The instructions to the Deputies had been: "The entrance of the King into the Chamber will be the signal for an enthusiastic outburst of applause." It was. The King marched up and sat down on the throne which had been specially built so that his short legs could reach the floor. Flanking the throne were eight gilded chairs and in each chair a Prince of the blood...
...Then, still so early that socialite Romans had not yet tasted their breakfasts, the Papal motorcade whizzed back toward Vatican City. CRASH!-an Italian army plane came down out of control and cracked up in the Castel Gandolfo road, just after His Holiness had passed. By 10:15 a.m. punctual Pope Pius XI was back at his duties in the sweltering Vatican...
...revolution Socialist Norman Thomas had in mind last week when he addressed a convention of the Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy at Manhattan's Barnard College. When young representatives of 30 Eastern colleges were 20 minutes late arriving to hear him, he, always punctual, upbraided them thus: "I'm terribly fed up with the romanticism of your generation. You give advice on every subject, including how not to conduct a revolution, but you never get around to a meeting on time...