Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producer, Mr. Miles is known to New York audiences for "Nine Pino Street", written in collaboration with John Colton. The author of the internationally known success "Rain". Other Broadway productions of his plays include "Portrait of Gilbert" and "The Granite Lady...
Although in such a limited space of time it has been impossible to reproduce the ceremonies in toto, great care has been taken to include the most important excerpts from each address. Unfortunately no pictures were taken of the addresses which took place in Memorial Hall during the rain, among which were those of Presidents Roosevelt and Angell, of the United States and Yale, respectively...
...better go see the official recording of them at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, today or tomorrow at 4:30 or 8:30 o'clock. Even those who were here for the assorted events will find an added pleasure in looking at the pictures. For inside the Institute the rain and the cold are an illusion, and more intimate, revealing views of the sundry dignitaries are to be had, than were ever available to the pushed-around undergraduates...
...record is complete, in its sketchy way, except for the final afternoon. At that time the gallant braving of the rain was abandoned, and the camera men did not follow the lucky few who were admitted into Memorial Hall. It is unfortunate that there is no commemoration of the disarming jocularity of that other President, Mr. Roosevelt, or of what was the highlight of the occasion for many Harvard men in spite of themselves, the delicate hilarity and profound good sense of President Angell...
...polling was taken in great seriousness, as story after story was received about a girl shivering in the cold or rain until a "second" arrived. Many a lad told such hard luck stories as not being able to take piano lessons from a female teacher in his own abode or not being able to receive furniture from a spinster aunt who had driven many miles to bequeath it. A large number of people expressed their willingness to abide by stringent parietal rules if only the various house common rooms be open to females without registration...