The official pass admitting to all these meetings will be given out to all members of the Class of 1940 beginning on Monday, September 14, at the Union on Quincy Street. All Freshmen should make inquiries there about all matters.
Friday Meeting
The notes of a bugle sounding through the Yard, at 9.30 on the morning of Friday, September 18, rallying the alumni to assembly, will give notice that the hour for the climactic event in Harvard's Tercentenary Celebration is at hand.
Those familiar with the history of the Bicentennial know that "at an early hour on September 8, all roads leading to Cambridge were thronged with carriages, chaises, omnibuses, and long lines of pedestrians pouring into town." A similar influx, but on a much larger scale, is anticipated for this year's Celebration.
Within the Old Yard, in order that everyone may know where to go, some eighty-six flags will be flying at various stations of assembly; one, for each class having a living member, and one for each of the graduate schools, whose alumni may not be graduates of Harvard College. The oldest classes will be placed at the head of the column, between University Hall and Weld Hall. The bugle will sound a ready signal at 9.40, and at a third signal, given at 9.45, the column, headed by the Class of 1860 and the Chief Marshal, will begin to march, in columns of four, into the Tercentenary Theatre.
A map of the Theatre is given on this page. Its 14,890 seats will occupy the area bounded by University and Sever Halls on the West and East, and by the Memorial Church and Widener Library on the North and South. The great outdoor theatre will contrast interestingly with the much smaller Meeting House and Pavilion where the Bicentennial observances were held. The platform at the North end (sketched by the late Charles A. Coolidge and completed after his death by his associates) will be architecturally an extension of the Memorial Church. It will be decorated with appropriate banners and the Harvard arms. A smaller platform for the Harvard Tercentenary Chorus and a band will also have been erected on the East side of University Hall.
As the alumni column enters the Tercentenary Theatre between Weld and University Halls, some 3,000 guests of the University will already be in place, having entered by the gate on Broadway between Robinson Hall and Hunt Hall. The column, marching to music of the Harvard University Band, will pass in front of Widener and turn up the main aisle, occupying seats to the left of the aisle, occupying seats to the left of the aisle, beginning with the front.
Students and Teaching Officers
While the alumni are forming in the Old Yard, the undergraduates, and students of the graduate schools in the University, will be forming their column in Sever Quadrangle, each class or school with its banner. As the alumni enter these students will simultaneously occupy seats on the East side of the Tercentenary Theatre.
The Academic Procession
Meanwhile, inside Widener Library, the Academic Procession will have been forming, each group in a special room. These groups are to include the following:
The Corporation; the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
The Board of Overseers.
Some twelve or fifteen ambassadors and ministers representing those countries whose scholars are to receive Honorary Degrees.
The United State Harvard Tercentenary Commission, created by Public Resolution Number 87, and including the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Speaker of the House, and four persons appointed by each of these.
