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...names of 100 Junior Ushers for the Class Day ceremonies were announced last night by R. H. Field '26, Head Usher. This list is not as yet complete, but the remaining men will be picked within the next few days...
...eight Juniors who will act as assistant head ushers at the Class Day exercises on Tuesday, June 16, were named last night by R. H. Field '26, the head usher recently appointed by the Class Day Committee...
Richard Hinckley Field '26, of Phillips, Me., was named yesterday by the Class Day Committee as head usher for Class Day from the Junior Class. At the same time, Nathaniel Saltonstall Howe '26, of New York City, was appointed head usher for the Senior Spread, and Ranlet Miner '25 of Rochester, N. Y., was made Tree Orator. Announcement was also made of the winners of the contests for the Baccalaureate Hymn and for the designs of the Yard. Stadium, and Memorial Hall tickets. The Hymn selected was written by Hugh Whitney '25, of Paris, France, and the winning ticket designs...
...duties of the Class Day head usher consist in supervising the arrangements for the exercises in Sanders Theatre, the Stadium, and the Yard. A number of assistant head ushers and the corps of Junior ushers will be appointed and announced in the near future by Field...
About a century later, after 1830, the vein of the songs begins to change. Dancing and the musical theatre performance usher in a new type of frivolous song composition. Each year brings its quota of new "marches", "quicksteps", "variations", "gallops", "quadrilles", "polkas", "schottisches", and "mazurkas". Then, as dancing and the musical theatricals begin to show their influence, are found such titles as "The Harvard Quadrille, to the ladies of the Harvard sociables" and "The Hollis Hall Polka". Finally comes "rag time" in the early 1900's and even in this the University is by no means left...