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Although Mrs. Edward K. Rand, as chairman, has been suitably honored with the "Palmes Academiques" by the French Government, few and far between have been the plaudits of the Harvard multitude. It is true that the Committee's offerings are attended by a great many students, but they are accepted with the same passive pleasure as the stacks in Widener or the works of art in Fogg...
...opening oration of President Conant, the special Ode to Harvard by Herman Hagedorn '07, and President-Emeritus Lowell's address, presiding at the Tercentenary meeting of the Alumni Association have all been recorded. Also the welcoming Latin oration by Edward K. Rand '94. Pope Professor of Latin, and the address by Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History have been preserved for posterity, along with other talks of major importance...
...voice announced that President Conant had consulted a meteorologist who told him that the rain would last only half an hour. Down pounded the mace of Sheriff John McElroy of Middlesex County as it must to open any Harvard ceremony, and by the time Latin Professor Edward Kennard Rand had finished his Salutary Oration and History Professor Samuel Eliot Morison had begun on ''The Early History of Harvard'' the rain had indeed stopped...
Among the speakers were Thomas H. Quinn '36, toastmaster; Charles A. Watkins '09, chief aide for the Associated Harvard Clubs Meeting; Nikita Elisseeff, of the University of Paris; Frank P. McInnis, of the University of Toronto; Ian Harvey, of Oxford; A James Copp III, of Stanford; and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin...
Professor Rand gave the principal speech of the evening; addressing the students as fellow alumni, he proved that they were really alumni, so short was their term as undergraduates in comparison with the age of the College. Chief pun of the evening was his witty declension of "California...