Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been decorated and the town has erected a triumphal arch over one of the principal streets. This morning there will be an academic procession followed by literary exercises, and in the afternoon a football game between Princeton and the University of Virginia. This evening there will be a large torchlight parade and illumination of the campus. Both graduates and undergraduates will participate in the parade and there will be numberless striking effects. A delegation from Yale will take part, and the procession will be reviewed by President Cleveland. Beside the usual floats and transparencies many electrical devices will be used...
...races will be contested on the Phaleric plan half way between the city and the seashore, the swimming and rowing races in the roadstead of Phaleron, and the yacht races in the Saronic Gulf. There is to be an illumination of the great monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek history, and a series of representations of dramatic masterpieces, beginning with a tragedy by Sophocles and ending with Wagner's "Lohengrin," and a special Olympic hymn by a modern Greek composer is to be sung by a monster chorus. A great attendance by athletes...
...number of '95 +++ marched in the Milton torchlight precession, in their red caps and gowns last night...
...HOPPIN Jr., temp. sec.ALL the men who are going to march in the torchlight procession tonight at Milton, must be at the Old Colony Station Kheeland St. to take the 7 45 train...
...have realized that college thought and educational sentiment are becoming yearly a more important influence upon public opinion. To further such influence Republican clubs have been formed in many of the colleges. In political clubs of former years, the idea has been more to get fun out of torchlight processions etc., than to accomplish any particular good...