Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Josiah Quincy, the Democratic candidate for representative in the second Massachusetts district, said that the Republicans might be allowed the pleasure of having the Harvard students march in their torchlight procession. As long as the boys' hearts were true there was little need for the Democrats to fear. Mr. Quincy's speech was in condemnation of unjust taxation. Mr. G. S. Howe, '89, as the representative of the undergraduates, made an exceptionally fine address. It was a difficult position for an undergraduate, but Mr. Howe's speech could well bear comparison with those those of the elder men. He received...
...Saturday's issue the cost of the uniform for the torchlight parade was stated by mistake to be $2.60 each. The correct price...
There is evidently a lack both of enthusiasm and funds at the headquarters of the rival democratic and republican state committees, as no final arrangements have been made by either party for a torchlight procession in Boston. It is no probable that either procession can take place before October...
...marshals appointed by the four classes to make arrangements for the torchlight procession have decided upon the following uniform : Crimson dress coat trimmed with black collar and cuffs, black false vest and white bosom. These will be worn by all the classes. The senior class will wear blue pantaloons with broad white stripes at the sides; the junior class, orange pantaloons with black stripes; the sophomore class, green pantaloons with white stripes, and the freshman class white pantaloons with crimson stripes. Black beaver hats will be worn by all, each having the class number painted upon it in large white...
...been the custom heretofore for the college marshals in torchlight processions to go on horseback, but as only one of the nine marshals of the upper classes recently elected has ever ridden a horse, this part of the ceremony will be omitted this fall...