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...undergraduates care much to escort the Alumni on the 8th of November. The route will be very short, the procession very long, so that the march of the undergraduates will be very brief, hardly worth the trouble of preparation, the love of long waiting, the remaining in Cambridge on a day when the crowd of Alumni will fill all the buildings and deprive you of seeing or hearing speeches, etc. If he undergraduates are content to abandon the escort, I should, for the above reasons, be glad. Yours truly, HENRY...
...hour of eight o'clock having now arrived, Josiah Quincy, Jr., moved, "That this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September...
...faculty of the Medical School will wear red gowns and the mortar-boards at the alumni meeting on November 8th...
...soon ascertained, that, on the 8th of September, there would be a general attendance of the Alumni of Harvard University, from all parts of the United States; and preparations, chiefly under the direction of Henry F. Baker, of the class of 1815, were accordingly made on a corresponding scale...
...morning of the 8th of September, 1836, a white banner, on which the device of the first seal of the University was emblazoned, was raised on the summit of the pavilion. At an early hour all the avenues leading from the city of Boston and its environs to Cambridge were thronged; and by nine o'clock the Alumni and invited guests, to the number of more than fifteen hundred, assembled in University Hall...