Word: classe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...amusing to look over the accounts of Class Day that appeared in the Boston papers the next morning. One paper says that "nearly every one had invitations to more than one of these [spreads], and there was a constant passing to and fro, with a lively interchange of gossip and badinage, which was entered into with zest by both hosts and guests." We are told in another place that "there was the usual rush for the flowers, in which nearly every one received some blossoms, while not a few came off with bruises, which sent them limping off for liniments...
Great credit is due to the marshals, Mr. Thayer, Mr. Bancroft, and Mr. William Otis, for the able way in which they performed their duties. The Class-Day Committee deserve the praise of the college as well as of the class for the completeness of their arrangements, and for the smoothness and precision with which these arrangements were carried out. Mr. Teschemacher deserves especial mention for the energy and the executive ability he has shown in his onerous office. In concluding our notice of this Class Day we can only wish '79 as successful...
...here in special trust, charged to represent the class of 1828, and to say such few words as I may be able to say at all, in strict reference to our Golden Wedding, on this fiftieth anniversary of our marriage to the Muses, whom we had courted for four years previously in the shades of Harvard, and from whom we won, after all, only a Bachelor's Degree...
...last annual report I proved by figures that, while we welcome hither alike the sons of the rich and the sons of the poor, the college is mainly recruited from the independent, well-to-do class, who are neither very rich nor very poor. For a poor man with brains Harvard is, I believe, the cheapest college in the country, because of our large scholarship funds. For a poor student without brains it is not to be recommended. I not infrequently have heard apprehension expressed lest, in consequence of the number of our scholarships, good scholarship should come...
...only remains for us who linger a little longer to remember affectionately those who are gone before, to thank God for sparing our own lives, and to resolve to continue doing whatever it may still be in our power to do, for the honor of our class, for the good of our fellow-man, and for the prosperity and welfare of our beloved Alma Mater. Let us hope that we may never be counted among her unworthy or ungrateful children...