Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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George Pierce Baker '87, Professor of Dramatic Literature at the University and author of many notable pageants, has been selected to write the Pilgrim Pageant, which will form the central feature of the celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Work on the pageant, which is to visualize the Pilgrim story, has already begun. Professor Baker is planning to enlist the co-operation of the foremost literary and musical talent in America, and to embody in his work lyrics and musical gems by the most notable writers and composers...
...oldest college building in America--Massachusetts Hall--will have its 200th birthday this year. Some years ago the birthday of Hollis Hall was celebrated by a pageant, speeches, poems, and dinners. Massachusetts Hall, which is older than Hollis, will have an even more elaborate celebration. Plans for it are in charge of William Coolidge Lane, Librarian of Widener Memorial Library and President of the Harvard Memorial Society...