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...Club has not been singing much in the yard of late becomes more and more suggestive. Whether this simply indicates an indisposition on the part of the present members of the club to favor the college or whether it is the sign of the decadence of the good old custom is an open question. If it is the latter it certainly is deplorable...
...glad to see the efforts which are being made to arrange games in Exeter and Andover with the nines of the two academies. We have mentioned before the advisability of such a plan and we trust that this will prove to be the permanent revival of an old custom...
...recitations of dialogues, translated from Latin. Although this attempt failed in its purpose, it aroused among the under-graduates a desire for volunteer displays of oratory, which was the real cause of the festival now known as Class Day. The class of 1760 has the honor of starting the custom, although the list of annual orators does not begin until 1776. Ten years later, in 1786. a poem was added as a regular part of the Class Day exercises...
...foolish custom of requiring Latin as the "court language" of the college, nearly resulted disastrously for the celebration of Class Day, for in 1802 the faculty passed a vote "that the particular kind of exercise in the Senior class at the time of their taking leave of the college be alone adhered to, and that consequently in the future no performance but a Valedictory Oration in the Latin language be permitted, except music adapted to the occasion." This vote put an effectual stop to any general observance of Class Day. In six years, however, the Faculty repented, and the exercises...
...however, arose the custom of entertaining one's friends with iced punch, procured at Williard's Tavern, (now, alas for the tender memories, better known as the Horse-car Station.) From this meagre beginning the present extensive method of entertainment has sprung. Compare the class day of 1834 with the iced punch, and the class day of 1893 with its spreads and teas, both private and society. Such is progress. In 1850, class day was placed upon the University Calendar by the side of its old rival, Commencement, and there it has remained ever since. The famous dancing...