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As a part of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Cambridge, exercises will be held this evening at eight o'clock in Sanders Theatre under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society.
Mayor Quinn will preside and deliver an address. Mr. William Roscoe Thayer '81, President of the Cambridge Historical Society, will speak on "Cambridge Old and New", and Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80 will deliver an address on the place of Cambridge in American History, while Mr. T. Harrison Cummings, Librarian of the city of Cambridge, will speak on "Cambridge's Most Valuable Asset: Birth of the Flag in Cambridge".
A grand pageant will be presented representing the flag which was hoisted over Washington's headquarters on January 1, 1776. Following the addresses there will be motion pictures and singing by the University Glee Club.
Tomorrow morning there will be a parade which will start at Porter Station and will be reviewed on the Esplanade at Technology Vice-President Coolidge will take part in this parade and make an address immediately afterward. Between twenty and thirty thousand marchers and over fifty floats will be in line.
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