Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plunging of this country into the world-war has given the thinking citizens of the United States a more serious attitude towards the difficult problems ahead of them. Although many unfortunately still regard the struggle in Europe merely as interested spectators attending a great pageant, Harvard undergraduates have continually heard the call to arms grow more and more distinct. Thus their change of attitude has not been sudden. The future promises grave problems and many hardships for the young men of the country. There is more harm than good in anticipating unseen dangers, but it is all-important to fortify...
...committee in charge of the Cambridge pageant which was to have been held in the Stadium next June announced last night that owing to the war which is at present threatening the United States, the pageant had been postponed until next year...
...Cambridge pageant planned for June, 1917, is postponed until next year. Although the money necessary has been subscribed, it seems to the undersigned wise that both the money and energy required should be used for possible national needs. Any money already paid in will be returned to the guarantors with the hope that the fund will be renewed when all danger of war for the United States is passed...
Professor G. P. Baker '87 has announced his plans for the Cambridge pageant to be held in the Stadium next June. The wonderful possibilities in the history of Cambridge as the subject for the pageant and the city's good fortune in possessing such a site as the Stadium for the presentation of an outdoor spectacle should assure it of all possible success. The pageant will serve to arouse the people of the city to an appreciation of the meaning of the city's past by bringing before them vivid selected sketches, and it will furthermore increase community spirit. Although...
...less than 3,000 persons must take part in the pageant to make it a success, and a brass band of at least 70 pieces will be secured...