Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more Harvard men are not wrong Herbert Hoover will be the next President of the United States. A delegation numbering that many or perhaps a few more last night wound its way and snake danced through the major parts of Boston as part of the huge Republican. Torchlight Parade...
...Harvard Republican Club will take part in the country wide pre-election demonstration of partisans of both parties when it occupies a prominent sector in the big Republican torchlight parade in Boston, Friday night. The club will manage its own section of the parade drawing its recruits from members of the University who are supporting Herbert Hoover in the election...
...political clubs then, but we did have torchlight parades. Both parties would be in both parades, such was the desire to be in or everything. On one occasion we had got down beyond Central Square when someone yelled out 'Freshies' from an upper window, with some justification. Potatoes were immediately put into action, and one first year man, whom I did not know, felt very much offended, for he was jumping around, waving his hands, and hurling violent epithets in the direction of the window. Well, that boy was Theodore Roosevelt...
...opportunity will be given for everybody to obtain a ticket for the parade. The ticket will entitle the holder to a crimson cap and gown and a torch to be carried by each member of the club." This was in the days when an election meant a frantic torchlight procession around the Square, burnings in effigy, and collegiate ballyhoo...
National politics, except in the months of Presidential campaigns, seldom makes any dent upon Harvard undergraduate life. Even in the fall of 1924, the student's participation in the campaign consisted more in torchlight processions and belligerent and meaningless statements to the press that in cool consideration of the issues involved. One debate at the Union was the only serous event which brought any large attendance, and a number of speeches at the Liberal Club completed the educational side of the campaign...