Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...torchlight parade is the accepted Harvard way of expressing undergraduate enthusiasm on great occasions. In this college generation there have been two celebrations of the sort, one to mark the tercentenary of the birth of John Harvard, and the other as the culminating feature of a political campaign. The present circumstances have more direct interest for the students than those attending either of the other parades, and consequently there is greater reason for wishing to make as impressive a showing as possible...
...members of the Union only. His last talk before the members of the University was given on April 4, 1907, when he discussed matters of everyday interest, both public and local. Four years ago he spoke from the steps of University Hall on the occasion of the Republican torchlight parade...
...presidential campaign seems to be complete in this vicinity without an intercollegiate parade. It is hardly to be supposed that all these men who propose to parade over a five-mile circuit or more do so out of sheer political enthusiasm; but a torchlight procession with the bands playing and a general feeling of excitement in the air is quite an attraction in itself, regardless of what the cause may be for which the parade is striving to do its share. This attraction is great enough in our community to induce some 800 men to put aside their books...
...Harvard contingent of the Republican intercollegiate torchlight parade will leave Cambridge this evening promptly at 7.30 o'clock. The first division, led by a division marshal and Carmichael's band, will form between University Hall and Meyer Gate, between Holworthy and Thayer Halls. This will be followed by the second division, also led by a division marshal and headed by the University band, which will form on Cambridge street with its head at Meyer Gate. The parade will begin to form at 7 o'clock, and at 7.25 will march in column of fours in front of University Hall, where...
Those interested in the intercollegiate torchlight parade in Boston on October 30, are reminded that they must purchase their tickets at once in order to obtain caps and gowns and torches, as no one will be allowed to march in this parade without them...