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A Boston.com slideshow highlights photographs of MIT’s Moving Day celebrations, which featured a parade of boats, floats and other creations crossing the Charles River by land and water. The parade commemorated the ceremonial journey of MIT’s charter, which was transported across the river by a barge in 1916. 

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MIT's "Crossing the Charles" procession and competition was a featured part of the Institute's Moving Day festivities, May 7, 2016. Here, grand marshal Oliver Smoot '62 (right) rides at the front of the parade.

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