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...various classes, will wear the traditional garb of Harvard Commencement officials, -- dark cutaway coats, with four-in-hand scarfs and silk hats. They will carry batons, emblematic of their office, and will be responsible for the smooth operation of the Commencement program, including the Alumni spreads, the procession, and Sever Quadrangle exercises...
Thursday, classmates will attend the Commencement exercises in the morning and have luncheon at the chief marshal's and the 1912 spread in the Yard. The members of the Class will then join the procession to the alumni exercises in the Sever Quadrangle. From 4 to 6 o'clock farewell gathering will be held at the Union...
...some time later he had produced the following: many thousands of dollars for 1) improvements in the health plant which is at present inadequate to care for us properly, especially in epidemic time; 2) fireproofiing and fire escapes for Harvard and Sever Halls. Of course, there never will be a fire there, but when it comes some few of us may be messed up; 3) making more of the precious and at present uncatalogued books in the Library available to us and creating a unified and separate music library; 4) endowing athletics so that our full program may be really...
...edges laid bare the wooden foundation on which the Tercentenary gift stands. Preliminary probings, however, revealed no trace of the marauders, and at a late hour last night it was not known whether more digging would take place at the same spot today or a return be made to Sever Hall, perennial eating ground of these animals...
...reciprocity among American colleges. In the field of government Samuel Seabury rendered a great public service, but degrees were similarly bestowed upon A1 smith, Orden Mills, and Secretary Wallance. Even the casual reader of the Bible will admit that it much easier for a rich man to enter the Sever Quadrangle than the gates of heaven, and it is hard to see how being President of "Filene's" or Vice-President of the "American Telephone and Telegraph" makes one automatically eligible for an academic degree at Harvard. Many men of science and literature have been honored, but in reading...