Word: torchlight
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...suggest that the College assemble in Harvard Square with torchlight's and flares, and behind the band, march down Boylston Street to the Stadium, where the fight and pep speeches would be made. We would do well to take a leaf out of the book of Andover-Exeter tradition and pull the team along the route in an open wagon. The marchers should sing Harvard songs, and so arrange themselves along the route as to form a continuous alley of rooters for the team. The throwing of flowers before the team's wagon (a custom in use at California institutions...
...Every undergraduate is expected and urged to be on hand today and tomorrow to participate in the celebration connected with the inauguration of President Lowell. The success of the torchlight procession from the Yard to the Stadium depends entirely on the number and enthusiasm of the students who are present. The various classes will assemble in the Yard at 8.45 o'clock sharp at the following places: Seniors in front of University Hall, Juniors in front of Weld Hall, Sophomores in front of Grays Hall, Freshmen in front of Matthews Hall. Everyone is requested to be on hand very promptly...
...Reichstag should be replaced by another. Afterwards the Government & Deputies expected to hurry from Potsdam to Berlin for a performance of "Chancellor Hitler's favorite opera," Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Meanwhile, by the Government's express decree, Germans were ordered to light "Liberty Bonfires" and stage torchlight parades throughout the land. About 10 p. m. Nazi Storm Troops and Steel Helmets (War Veterans) were to march in a mighty, triumphal torchlight procession down Unter den Linden while Orator Hitler harangued the nation over a compulsory radio hookup of every German station...
...Undergraduate Day", "Foundation Day", and "Alumni Day" were celebrated in turn. The exercises were marked by dinners and addresses by leaders of the time. The culmination of the commemorative program came when 790 people attended a dinner in Memorial Hall. This was followed by a colorful torchlight parade...
...which has a repertoire of music of a more popular and convivial type. And the fact that this group has been of a small character is an indication, in part, of the manner in which the tastes of the college man who sings have changed since the era of torchlight parades. A Glee Club, in the accepted meaning of the word, moreover, is not necessarily a group wedded to music of a gleesome character...