Word: class-day
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...lacrosse team is on the field; the tennis courts are being laid out, and everything points to a very lively spring. The spring term is the pleasantest part of the year. There is always something to do or to see. The class races, the H. A. A. games, the base-ball and lacrosse championship games, and finally Class-day and the New London races crowd hard upon each other. Our outlook in athletics in good but not nearly as good as it should be. We must work if we would win. The University at large must show its interest...
...class-day exercises of Columbia College, the Senior class will present a gift to the class which is, in its opinion, the most popular in college, and they, in turn, will hand it down at their graduation...
During the last twenty years many old customs have been done away with at Yale as well as at Harvard. These charges are especially noticeable in the class-day exercises of the two colleges. In former days, the graduating class took breakfast with the President, and in the afternoon came the memorable dance upon the green. At Yale usages have been abandoned even more than at Cambridge. One of the best known ceremonies that no longer occupies a part of the presentation week is the Wooden Spoon Ceremony. This custom had its origin at one of the colleges at Cambridge...
...following officers and speakers were elected: Class-Day committee, C. H. Young (chairman), E. Ewell, H. A. Sill, H. A. Vedder, J. R. Fairchild, G. F. Warren and W. R. Powell; historian, J. J. Mapes; poet, L. C. Reamer; prophet, C. S. Baldwin; presentation orator, W. C. Humphreys; class-day orator, P. F. Hall. The proceedings were characterized by unanimity and the utmost good feeling...
Committees were appointed (1) to confer with like committees of the other classes, in regard to the plan for student representation in the government of the college; (2) to arrange for individual photographs of the class; and (3) to report whether improvements can be made upon the ordinary Commencement and Class-Day programmes...