Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Class Day Committee, composed of the seven men elected yesterday, begins its work immediately. It has entire charge of all Class Day arrangements, including the baccalaureate sermon, Senior spread, the exercises in Sanders Theatre, the Stadium exercises, the festivities in the Yard on the evening of Class Day, and the dances in Memorial Hall and the Gymnasium on the same evening...
Nearly three centuries have passed since the first festival of Thanksgiving was celebrated in early New England days. Since that time the custom of setting apart a day of general thanksgiving in the harvest season has spread from the shores of New England throughout the land until today it has become a thoroughly established national festival. Harvard College, more perhaps than any other similar institution, is distinctly associated with Thanksgiving Day, first because the earliest observances are to be found in and about Boston, and secondly because the first proclamation making a day of thanksgiving a national concern was drawn...
...friendship of many of the noblest personalities of his day, both at home and abroad, and the result was a unique breadth of intellectual as well as personal sympathies. The country has lost a scholar who stood for the beautiful in art, in literature, and in human life, and spread his teachings among great numbers; Harvard has lost a teacher through whom many of her sons have come in contact with what is best in literature and the fine arts, and a friend, besides, whose memory will be cherished in even higher esteem by those who knew his worth...
...duty, he said, to impress the power and personality of President Eliot and of the University on every one. It had been hard to decide to come over here for the second time and to leave Germany; but his sense of duty called him. He wished to spread the knowledge of what Germany had done in literature and what her great figure stood for among the young men of this country. To them, as the new generation, is his mission...
...fourth annual Union Spread will be held today, beginning at 5.30 o'clock, on the lawn south of the building. The entrances and exits will be by the gate on Harvard street and by the main door. The lawn will be decorated with Japanese lanterns, and supper will be served there between 6 and 8 o'clock. Gott's orchestra will play throughout the evening, and there will be dancing in the Living Room beginning at 8.30 o'clock. Tickets for the spread are now on sale at the office of the Union...