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After the Commencement exercises tomorrow morning, the 1910 spread will be held in a special tent in the Yard. The Class will then join the Alumni procession to the exercises in the Sever quadrangle at about 1.30 o'clock. The Reunion will be officially closed with a farewell tea in the Union...
...Detroit last week Rev. J. Frank Norris, blatant Baptist lately called from Fort Worth. Tex. (TIME, Jan. 14), began to preach his doctrines of damnation in a tent which he claims is the nation's largest. From a tent pitched nearby came the raucous blare of the Curtis Fashion Plate Circus. Preacher Norris indignantly prayed God to put a stop to this disturbance...
Next day a short, sharp gale blew up, sent the circus tent crashing to the ground.* Performers promptly struck for back pay, left town when their demands were refused. In his own undamaged tent Preacher Norris complacently exhorted a considerably enlarged congregation...
...region in the southern Adirondack is one of the most famous geological study grounds in the country. Here the summer student may study easily early Paleozoic sediments overlapping the Precambrian complex as he "roughs it" according to the best geological tradition, living in a tent and sleeping in a folding...
...hundred and fifty Manhattan bankers, businessmen, editors and miscellaneous bigwigs had fun initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed...