Word: torchlighters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dear--, You remember in my last letter I wrote you of the grand torchlight parade in which the college was to participate, and of the rush which was to take place between Sophomores and Freshmen at the close. Well, we left Harvard square at about six o'clock, and here it was, that the struggle between '87 and '88 began; it was to see which should get possession of the few horse cars. We pulled and tugged, spilled the oil in our torches over each other's clothes, disarranged the artistic hanging of our black ulsters...
...themselves during the political campaign, the Harvard brass band may congratulate itself on coming out number 1, both in effective work done, and in the good time generally which it has had. The enviable reputation it has acquired as a noise producer, made its services invaluable for a torchlight parade, and the invitation showered upon it by both Republican and Democratic committees, were accepted with a readiness and an impartiality delightful to behold...
...never flinched from its duty. It had agreed to escort Carl Schurz and the Harvard delegation, and that agreement was kept, even at the cost of a thorough soaking of the swell new uniforms, there worn for the first time. The next evening the band paraded in the Republican torchlight procession in Melrose. A barge conveyed the twenty-five members to Melrose and back, taking an hour and a half for the journey each way. It is said on excellent authority that the reportorie of the hand on this occasion included five tunes. The band reached Harvard square on their...
...Junior class were photographed in their torchlight parade costumes in front of Matthews on yesterday afternoon. Pach was the photographer...
...brass band, drum corps and police squad, or any other organization connected with the torchlight processions, desire to have their pictures taken, the photographic committee of the Senior Class will make arrangements with Mr. Notman for performing the work at any time or place as such organizations may wish. The pictures will be at the regular class rates, 65 cents a piece...