Word: severities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tory Row dowagers, who congregate regularly at the Cock Horse, generally choose one of the downstairs rooms where the rule is dignity, restraint and no smoking. Above, there are six semiprivate rooms where graduate students and professors are wont to soft-talk over their coffee. No liquor is sever in any of the various chambers; it just isn't that type of place. The Cock Horse is for sentimental its who like to dream of bygone days when the anvil and hammer changed and the oft-chanted poem was brewing in Longfellow's mind. But the food is every...
...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...
...clock all alumni will march to the Sever Quadrangle, where they will be addressed by President Conant, Governor Saltonstall, and two others...
When the smoke clears from the Commencement Day ceremonies in Sever Quadrangle on June 19, history may have been made, President Roosevelt and Lord Halifax may both have attended the ceremonies and reaffirmed perhaps in a more active form, the unity of Britain and the United States in the present...
...case history will have been made for the University on that day, because for the first time in the course of 290 Commencement Days, photographers will be admitted to the hallowed precincts of Sever Quadrangle. On the surface there seems little connection, but certainly the fact that photographers will be admitted to the quadrangle implies that there will be something worth photographing, and also adds a little more weight to the rumor that President Roosevelt will be present at the exercises...