Word: grand national
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...decided to have an annual feast sometime during January, which it is intended shall be a grand affair, to which President Eliot, the Harvard Glee Club and prominent men of the nation will be invited. - [Chicago Tribune...
...ended the day that hall was dedicated; the other goes on from year to year, increasing as the years roll on. A stranger at Harvard yesterday would never have known that the day was a holiday, that the nation was remembering its dead. Recitations, lectures, examinations went on as usual. This indeed could be pardoned, but when the students saw that grand Memorial Hall as free of decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single-one of the many names engraved on the marble tablets...