on the Wednesday afternoon préceding. Moving pictures, as well as ordinary photographs, were taken of all the scenes. The full Pageant program follows. THE ANNIVERSARY PAGEANT A Symbolical and Historical Pageant given by Citizens of New Brunswick and the Faculty, Alumni, and Undergraduates of Rutgers College in connection with the celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Granting of a Royal Charter to Queen's College, now Rutgers College. Pageant by Professor CLARENCE WARD Music arranged and Musical Notes compiled by Historical Notes compiled by Mr. WILLIAM H. BENEDICT FOREWORD In presenting this pageant there is no claim to absolute historical accuracy either in action or costume. Rather is it the purpose of pageantry to produce scenes as imagination pictures them. It is hoped that the spectators will judge the result attained from this standpoint and that they will find, in the episodes represented, pictures of "the good old days and good old ways," as they themselves have pictured them. The prolog is a symbolical representation of the learning of the Middle Ages from which our own colleges and universities have sprung. This learning may be briefly described as of two sorts, secular and theological, the one represented by the nobility and the institution of chivalry, the other by the monastic and secular clergy and the Church. The pageant opens with a prelude1 followed by the 1 The music for the entire pageant has been drawn from that actually used at the time represented by the action, or from some more modern source reflective or indicative of the characteristics of the various periods. Considerable care has been taken to present the music as accurately as possible, thus giving actual reproductions of music used at the different historical periods of the pageant. The orchestral prelude and martial music used during the prolog are taken from the "Pomp and Circumstance" military marches of the great English composer, Sir Edward Elgar (1857- ). These marches were first produced in 1901. The ones rendered, numbers one and two, are very suggestive of the time here represented, martial music of the "Pomp and Circumstance" military marches, during which the action of the prolog begins. The figure of Philosophy first appears, followed by those of the Seven Liberal Arts: The Trivium (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) and The Quadrivium (geometry, arithmetic, music, astronomy). Each has a symbolical character. Philosophy has a ladder up her body, representing the steps by which one arrives at the perfect knowledge of the Queen of Knowledge. A sceptre in her left hand indicates her authority. A closed, surmounted by an open, book in her right hand are probably the Old and New Testament. The Greek letters theta and pi on her robe stand for theoretical and practical philosophy. Grammar holds a ferrule and teaches a child from a book. Dialectic has a serpent wound round her neck, indicating wisdom and skill in speaking. Rhetoric writes upon a tablet. Geometry has a drawing board and compass. Arithmetic holds small balls for counting in her hand. Music strikes upon a row of bells. Astronomy holds a disk with a broken line running through it, an instrument for measuring the distances of the stars. This was the customary method of representing these Liberal Arts in the carved stone and painted glass of the medieval cathedrals. As they take their places, forming the background and keynote of the scene, the sound of a troubadour's song is heard.2 WHEN THE NIGHTINGALE SHALL SING (Quant li Rosignol Jolis) When the nightingale shall sing And the dew bespangles the thorn; Notes of passion ne'er can swell. 2 The ballads used in the prolog were selected from those used by the medieval singers, the Troubadours of France and the Minnesingers of |