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...United States. This fact was released to the CRIMSON last night after a secret meeting of the University Nihilists. Although the Executive Committee refused to divulge the identity of their nominee, they announced that he would appear in person on Monday night at 6.30 to head the torchlight parade which the college iconoclasts are planning...
...Bunk". Thus Captain Brennan of the Harvard Square Police Station termed the declarations of a Boston paper that the torchlight procession of University students next Thursday night would be accompanied by any form of rioting. The paper in question had vividly described the police as polishing up rusty riot guns, releading and cleaning their night sticks and greasing the "Black Maria" in anticipation of a rushing business on Thursday night...
...seems that about a thousand students from M. I. T. and the University were having torchlight parades in Boston, and for some unaccountable reason met and began to fight. While the students were lustily battering each other with their torches and whatever weapons were at hand, the police arrived...
...campaign there had never been any question as to which party the torchlight procession represented,--Harvard had always been Republican. In 1884, however, the Union of the Independent and Democratic parties injected a new question into the plans for the procession. Was there to be one procession representing the majority of Harvard opinion or two separate parades, representative of both Democratic and Republican parties...
...campaign the torchlight procession seems to have reached the height of its popularity. Although it has figured in all the Presidential elections up to 1920 it has never been entered upon with the same enthusiasm as marked its execution in days gone by It seems to have joined the ranks, of Harvard traditions that now are numbered only by the epitaph...