Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since the Houses were built the concert will move back into the Yard. Previous to the construction program in the early thirties the traditional Class Day concert was held in the Yard, which was bedecked with Japanese lanterns...
...long as this sort of puritanism held pre-Commencement activities in check, nothing like a genuine, festive Class Day existed. But in 1834, some-where, somehow, iced punch came into the Yard, and within the next four years, Senior celebrations had become so bachannalian that President Quincy put a ban on dancing and drinking, thereby threatening to nip Class Day in the bud. But when the actual day arrived, the ladies, who according to some dim nineteenth century logic had previously gone away from the Yard in the afternoon when the real celebrating began, were allowed to remain. Something...
...frantically to get hold of a piece of a wreath. This, surely, is progress. And in the nineteenth century President Lowell exulted "What a glorious object is a Senior on Class Day to a maiden of sixteen." Today, there will probably not be a girl under eighteen in Harvard Yard, and this, too, is progress. It is the sort of progress that can create confidence in the future of Harvard College and in the future--all the more unlimited because unnumbered--of the institution of Class...
Rain drove the Class Night procession from Radcliffe Yard to the Agassiz living room, where seniors marched through an arch of Chinese lanterns, and, in accordance with tradition, handed on their banner and colors to the class...
Eight new members of Radcliffe's Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa were initiated at last night's candlelight ceremony in Byerly Hall, in the Annex Yard...