Word: severe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University today conferred 1800 degrees, the largest number in its history, at the Commencement exercises held in Sever Quadrangle, which brought to a close its Two Hundred and Ninety-first year." So reads the opening paragraph of Harvard's annual assertion of intellectual energy...
Eighteen hundred degrees, the largest number in the history of the University, were awarded at the two hundred and ninety first Harvard Commencement exercises held in Sever Quadrangle this morning. Of the 632 degrees which were conferred on students graduating from the College 221, or more than one third were with honors. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was received by 501 undergraduates, 187 with honors, and that of Bachelor of Science by 131, 34 with honors...
...Thursday the Commencement Exercises take place in Sever Quadrangle at 10 o'clock, the temporary wooden stands being at present in readiness for the services. The President and Fellows, Overseers, Faculties and other officers will meet the invited guests and Alumni of the University at Massachusetts Hall at 9,45 o'clock, and, escorted by the Candidates for Degrees, will proceed to the Sever Quadrangle. The Alumni of all classes are permitted to join the procession. They are requested to assemble in front of Massachusetts Hall and to join the President's part of the Commencement in order of seniority...
...clock--Literary exercises in the Sever Quadrangle...
Externally the Museum building is of red brick. The facade, which fronts on Quincy Street, and which has been called "Twentieth Century Cambridge" in style, is a modern adaptation of the best in Georgian architecture. Viewing it from the shallow quadrangle formed by Emerson, Sever, and Robinson Halls, one is impressed not so much by its magnitude and line as by the open expanse of skylight and the suggestion of a bright, shadowless interior...