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...proper will start in Boston but Harvard Republicans are tentatively planning to organize their body first in Cambridge, marching around the Yard and College buildings to pick up their constituency. Arrangements are at present being made to transport the Republicans to Boston on a large scale following this exhibition. Torch lights and flares will naturally fill a prominent position in the march...
Interceding in a gas-torch week that has witnessed the call and dusty answer of the several warring political greats, a football game, strange anomaly, provides a breathing spell. Twenty-five years of Stadium tradition are rounded out in this afternoon's Dartmouth gridiron appearance. Athletics were a casual pastime when the men from Hanover first came to Cambridge; it was that long ago. And yet, such is the effect of partial anti-climax, popular and newspaper hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent...
...registration of all men in the respective parties at the CRIMSON building it was pointed out that: "During the registration today an 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...
When the student participation was limited to amateur and indiscriminate pedestrianism in the torch light parades of both parties, such pranks might have been condoned. But with the publication of absentee voting regulations for students and inmates of soldiers' and sailors' homes, with the actual organization of clubs, with the compiling of lists of names, the donning of the toga virilis becomes a more serious responsibility...
...Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock, brandishing a torch labeled "Sectarianism" and herself labeled "Mrs. Willebrandt...