Word: bon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...part of the undergraduates in the celebration will be a torchlight parade and bon-fire at eight o'clock in the evening. They will be divided by classes and each class and department will wear distinguishing caps and gowns...
...hoped to see other winning crews next spring. After cheering the president and singing "Fair Harvard," the procession marched to Professor Hollis's and when he finished a short speech continued to Solider's Field. When the barge had been drawn near the pile of barrels intended for the bon fire, Trainer McMaster made a speech in an optimistic vein. All the members of the nine and crew were called on for speeches and were received with cheers. The fire was then started, and after more cheering, the crowd broke...
...celebration will be held on Friday evening in honor of the crew, when a procession, headed by the crew and the band, will form in the Yard. As a fitting close to the celebration, there will probably be a bon fire on Holmes Field. The committee requests contributions of barrels and boxes...
This is the most important consideration before us, as we have said. The other and lesser one is that unless the proposed plan of celebrating is a success, our celebrations in future will be greatly restricted; we shall have to give up having a bon-fire and we may have to give up demonstrations of any kind in the Yard. The result of this would be that the new and thoroughly praiseworthy spirit of enthusiasm would be quenched, and we should probably return to the wretched indifference from which we have now cut loose...
...feel that the form of celebration most prized by the students and most easily controlled is a bon-fire, and we honestly believe that Holmes Field is the best place for a fire because a centralized celebration is more easily controlled. We therefore request, on behalf of the students of the University, that we be allowed to have a bon-fire, of proper materials, after an athletic victory, on Holmes Field...