Word: raines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tercentenary Theatre has been set up in Harvard Yard in front of Widener Library as always. Equally inevitably, 15,000 people, the University's traditional estimate, will attend the proceedings and there is only a 20 per cent chance of the record that there is never any rain on Commencement Day being tarnished...
Inclement weather hampered the commencement exercises. As Dean Kathleen O. Elliott reached the letter "m" in the process of calling out each girl's name, the rain began to fall. Mrs. Bunting, who had been shaking each girl's hand and giving her her diploma, asked the class of '68 to decide "democratically" whether to continue the service outdoors in the Radcliffe Yard, or move into the gymnasium. The black-capped girls voted overwhelmingly to continue outdoors in the rain...
...Radcliffe 86th Commencement Exercises, in the Academic Yard, in case of rain in Sanders Theatre. Speaker will be Walter E.Washington, Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia...
...Class Day Exercises, Tercentenary Theatre, in case of rain at Sanders Theatre. The main speaker will be Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., the only guest speaker ever invited by a graduating class. Class Orator is Henry P. Norr '68. Class Odist is Arthur Lipkin '68. A "We Won't Go" signing will also take place...
...will not abandon this place," cried the Rev. Ralph Abernathy in Resurrection City, the 15-acre Washington campground staked out by the Poor People's Campaign. But at least one-third of an estimated 3,000 residents pulled out of it as more than two inches of rain fell during one 30-hour period, blanketing the once-grassy meadow with a six-inch impasto of mud. Abernathy himself spent his nights elsewhere until a band of Negro militants invaded his hotel. Though they were turned back by staff members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Abernathy, chagrined, moved into...