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...Wednesday evening the torchlight procession of the graduates and undergraduates will take place. It is the desire of the committee that has charge of this parade that everything should be done in good order, so a member from each class has been appointed to have charge of his class. The parade will start at 8.30, led by the 71st Regiment Band. Then will follow the Mercer Blues, who are a military company of undergraduates, dressed in old colonial uniforms; a delegation from Yale, the undergraduates and the graduates, the classes from 1823 to 1896 all being represented. The parade will...
Great interest is being felt in the sesqincentennial celebration at Princeton this week. The invitation for Yale to participate in the torchlight parade on the evening of October 21 was warmly accepted and steps were at once taken to choose the twenty-four delegates from the undergraduate departments. Meetings were held last Friday evening, at which twelve men from Ninety-seven and twelve from Ninety-seven Sheffield were elected as Yale's representatives...
...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...