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199 Cliffedwellers Graduate in 70th School Exercises

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One hundred and ninety nine Radcliffe seniors will owitch their tasseis from right to left in the Annex's 70th Commencement exercises to be held at 11 a.m. today in Sanders Theatre. Seventy degrees will be conferred for advanced studies.

Vera Micheles Dean '25, editor of "Foreign Policy," will address the audience. Reverend Dwight C Smith of the Mount Vernon Church of Boston will give the invocation and benediction. His daughter, Cynthia Smith, will be receiving a master's degree in teaching.

The seniors will march from the Radcliffe Yard at 10:30 a.m. crossing the Cambridge Common to Memorial Hall. They will be headed by Elizabeth Trygstad Fast of Cambridge and Phebe Crampton of Swampscott, elected class marshals.

Mrs. John Maguire, college marshal, will lead the procession made up of the trustees; deans, and members of the faulty Sitting in the center of the stage will be President Willbur K. Jordan, Dean Kerby-Miller, Reverend Smith, Mrs. Dean, and Alfred S. Romer, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology.

Forty-four percent of the Class of '52 will be graduated with honors. One senior. Natalie Rae Dosick of Brighton, will receive a bachelor of arts summa cum laude.

In case of rain, the senior class will not take the traditional merino across the Common, but will line up in Memorial Hall along with the graduate students, the trustees, and members of the faculty.

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