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...morning meeting was opened by the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Joseph M. McElroy, who rapped on the rostrum three times with his scabbard. Then President Conant was seated in the incident Tudor Chair, and the Commencement Parts, including the Latin Oration, were delivered...
...stately custom which has varied little in three centuries, the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, Joseph M. McElroy, will call the morning exercises in Sever quadrangle to order, striking the platform thrice with his scabbard. Other ceremonies harking back to Harvard's early Colonial days and its heritage from the English universities will be the seating of the University President in an ancient Tudor chair; the participation of church and commonwealth officials; the adherence to traditional forms of speech in presenting candidates for degrees; and the Latin Oration by a Senior...
...Lovette, his brown eyes snapping, dwelt chiefly on his intensely bad relations with the Japs. On his destroyer he lost the manuscript of a new book, two-thirds finished after years of work, on naval officers in U.S. diplomacy. All he saved was his sword, and even its leathery scabbard was burned...
Under a huge tent, the sheriff of Middlesex County rapped three times with his scabbard, roared: "The meeting will come to order." While three undergraduate orators delivered their "parts," Lord Halifax took notes. Cried Senior Lemuel Serrell Hillman, of Grand Rapids, Mich...
...accordance with an ancient custom symbolizing the historic ties between Harvard and Middlesex county, the High Sheriff, Mr. McEiroy, called the morning exercises in Sever Quadrangle to order, striking the paltform thrice with his scabbard. He announced "The Meeting will come to order." Dean Sperry then offered prayer, and the University choir, directed by G. Wallace Woodworth, sang...