Word: torchlighters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thousand tall hats for torchlight parade are ready for sale, at 25c. each, at J. F. Noera's, 436 Harvard street...
...being furnished by the enormous drum corps and by the Harvard Brass Band, which has been increased in size and is working hard to bring itself into a state of perfection for that night. Transparencies ought to be as thick as flies upon the wall. This special feature of torchlight processions has always been carried to the highest state attainable by the Harvard men of former years, and it is hoped that this year will be no exception to the rule. If sufficient money is raised the committee will be enabled to provide a large stock of fireworks...
...torchlight uniform of the junior class is to consist of blue and white striped "swallow tailed" coats, with '86 on the back, in large letters; trousers of the same material; and black "stove pipes...
...have received a communication from a gentleman who regrets that the standing committee of arrangements for the torchlight procession have decided to allow individual transparencies to be carried. He fears that as the college is so evenly divided there will be about as many transparencies reflecting on Blaine as on Cleveland, and therefore hardly suitable for a Republican procession. The gentleman, however, probably never had the pleasure of witnessing the Harvard delegation in any of the presidential processions, and consequently does not appreciate the meaning of individual transparencies. The wit which is displayed on such transparencies does not confine itself...
...first bulletin of the general committee for the torchlight parade shows that every endeavor is being made to have the arrangements for the procession complete and, what is also of importance, made in time. The idea of adopting class uniforms, which '86 has already done at their suggestion, is a very good one, making the appearance of the Harvard regiment much superior to the showing made in former years. and that at only a very small cost to each individual. It is, indeed, most necessary that these uniforms, for we take it for granted that the other classes will adopt...