Harvard Class Day Echoes War Valor and Vivid Pageantry
Harvard Class Day celebrated the class of 1919 with 8000 attendees at Harvard Stadium and Sanders Theatre. Veterans of prior wars and younger alumni marched amid confetti, banners, and oratory by Frederick Warburg, while tributes to Harvard’s war efforts and a drought scare colored the day. Evening festivities included Yard dancing and a midnight plunge in the fountain, followed by baseball at 3:30 against Yale.
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Harvard
Ivy
Long Ling
Soldiers Field
Frederick Marcus Warburg
New York City
Furst
Hank’’ Flower
Lowell
Colt
Orator Warburg
Glee Club
Hemingway
Widener Library
Harvard Class Ode by Robert Tyng Rushrell
Harvard Ode honors fallen classmates as sons of the, school depart for the last march. The piece laments lives laid on the altar of truth and praises their sacrifice. It urges successors to uphold the cause and remember the brave dead who fought for justice.
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Robert Tyng Rushrell
Harvard
Poem on timeless ideals by Robert Crockett Rand
The poem reflects on victory and tears, warns against radical change, and urges adherence to enduring ideals from history. It critiques prophecies and utopian dreams, praising sacrifice, love, and chivalry as lasting timeless virtues. It emphasizes humility before age old truths and the dangers of extremes.
Harvard class notes on war heroes and world fate
A Harvard class speaker reflects on WWI heroes from the warship to a Radcliffe researcher. He lauds veterans, including a naval prize inmate, a France-based ace decorated by the King, and a Merritt Camp disinfectant officer, then argues America must balance isolation with international leadership to preserve freedom and aid Europe.
House judiciary rejects repeal of wartime alcohol limits
The House judiciary committee votes 10 to 5 against Rep Igoe’s bid to weaken wartime prohibition for light wines and beers. The Volstead panel approves the intoxicating liquor section, listing alcohol, brandy, whiskey and other beverages and setting the limit at one half of 1 percent alcohol.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Igoe
Missouri
Gard
Ohio
Classon
Wisconsin
Volstead
Colonel Hutchison of Ottawa Dead
Colonel William Hutchison chief commissioner of expositions for Canada died in Ottawa aged 16 years He represented Ottawa in the House of Commons as a Liberal from 1876 to 1900 He directed Canada displays at Buffalo St Louis and San Francisco expositions
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Ottawa
William Hutchison
Dominion of Canada
House of Commons
Hutchison
Canada
Buffalo
St. Louis
San Francisco
John’s Medicine for Summer Colds and Lung Health
Advertisement touts John’s Medicine as a natural remedy for summer colds and throat troubles. It warns neglect may cause chronic lung issues and long coughs and promotes a 60 year history of success including toning and rebuilding strength.
Knox Opens Fight in Senate for League Covenant
In Washington on June 17 Senator Knox urged the Senate to consider his resolution to separate the peace treaty from the League of Nations covenant. He warned against making the issue partisan and argued the Monroe Doctrine and Irish and Negro questions could be affected by the covenant and warned against delaying peace. He urged prompt, sober action to avoid "the War that was to end all wars" ending with no peace.
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Caesar
Julius
Merritt
March
Radcliffe
Phillips Brooks House
Glee Club
Polonius
Laertes
Hatch
America
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Asia
China
Turkey
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League of Nations
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Senate
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Pennsylvania
Grenna
Senator Knox
League
Paris
Mexico
Japan
Guatemala
Great Britain
Brazil
Germany
Argentina
Italy
Hast
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Rye
N. Y
Robert Tyng Nashnell
Andover
Mayo Shattuck
Yale
Gaul
Miles Standish
Park Street
Pocahontas
John Smith
Annals of
New Haven
Cambridge
Elis
Alsace Lorraine
Place de la Concorde
Francy
Willy
Waltham and Elgin
Beween
Till & P.M. Jewelers
Pep
Washington St. Nee
Robert Crockett
RAND
Earl & Wilson
Betty Watson
Naval Prison
Portsmouth Naval Prison
Loonx
Naval Board of Inquiry
Thes
Fogg Museum
Venus de Mile
France
Order of the Paris Garter
Order of the Bath
King George
Delousing
Hamilton
Abraham Lincoln
Russia
England
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Col. Hutchison
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McCumber
Robert L. Norton
United Front In Foreign Affairs
TOF
Plant Ice
Taylor
Fancy
Winter St
Tel
Beach
Motor & Mail
Farley & Macneill
E. P. Rim Tool
Century Plainfield
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