Word: severants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth, the Mayors of Boston and Cambridge, and other public officials, officers of the Army and the Navy, dignitaries of the church, and candidates for degrees, alumni, and special guests, in cap and gown or other formal attire solemnly marched into Sever Quadrangle...
This afternoon, the Alumni will hold their meetings, following a procession from the Yard into Sever Quadrangle. President Charles Warren '89 will announce the result of the election for members of the Board of Overseers, Directors of the Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council. Music will be by the University sity Choir...
Thirteen honorary degrees were conferred by President James B. Conant this morning at the Harvard Commencement exercises in Sever Quadrangle in the College Yard, in the presence of 5,800 special guests, alumni, students, members of the Faculty and members of the graduating classes. The recipients, in the order in which the degrees were presented, and the citations read by President Conant...
...remembered the empty paint-mattress-mothballs smell of his Freshman room on the first day, the peculiarly strong wet-earth odor of the Yard after a heavy rain, the mustiness of Sever, and the faint atmosphere of crumbling newsprint that he'd stumbled on when he'd made his only pilgrimage to floor D in the Widener stacks...
...heart overflowing with sympathy, we returned to the Sever quadrangle in search of the little nipper who had once owned our copy of the Anniversary Guide. He was gone; perchance (unfortunate one!) to the Union, or even...who knows...to some happy hunting ground where life is one long reunion, the valuables are all hidden away and no one knows anybody else's name...