Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Shortly before three o'clock, 1,200 alumni and invited guests sat down to the collation. Judge Devens, president of the Alumni Association, presided. On his left were seated President Cleveland and his cabinet officers, and on his right President Eliot and the representatives of foreign universities. Dr. McKenzie was requested by Judge Devens to ask the blessing, after which all rose and joined in singing "St. Martin's" hymn. Judge Devens opened the speaking with a long and very able address...
President Cleveland: Mr. President and gentlemen: I find myself today in a company to which I am unused; and when I see the Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill...
When President Cleveland enters Cambridge on Monday, a salute of 21 guns will be fired and the bells will be rung for half an hour. The same salute will be given when he returns to Boston...
...Yale Glee Club and Banjo Club intend giving concerts in New York, Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Erie, Cleveland, Buffalo, Auburn, Utica, Troy and Brooklyn during the Christmas vacation...
...present freshman class at Yale is the largest that has ever entered that institution; numbering 277. The cities sending the most representatives are: New Haven, 38; New York, 23; Chicago, 19; Cleveland and Cincinnatti, 7 each; St. Louis and Philadelphia, 6 each...