Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clock, the members of each class rallying around the standard which bears its number. Horse-cars will be in readiness at half past six to convey the students to the place of formation. Torches will be delivered by the authorities of Ward One after 4 o'clock on the day of the parade. All students wishing to secure a place in the procession must give timely notice to the marshals. No political signification must be attached to this battalion as regards the College, for all the men who march will do so under the auspices of the Cambridge Republican Committee...
Notice to Seniors.REPRESENTATIVES of the various portions of the Senior class met yesterday afternoon, and decided upon the following preliminary arrangements for the election of Class and Class-Day officers. It was agreed that the meeting of the class should be called for Wednesday, November 1st; that nominations for the various offices should be made at any time on or before Monday, October 30th, to C. M. Barnes, Matthews 39, chairman of a committee on nominations, consisting of four members, - one each from the different portions of the class. Nominations must be signed by at least one member...
LAST year a faint attempt was made to instil into the minds of the Senior class the propriety of discarding the absurd costume which has been in vogue for some years past on Class Day and Commencement, and of adopting in its place the decidedly more appropriate and scholarly garment of the gown. The attempt, however, proved futile, because the few men interested in the matter allowed the opportunity of making the change to slip away, through their inactivity in canvassing the subject, and in bringing its merits before the majority, who looked with the utmost indifference upon any plan...
...Class Day and Commencement it is, of course, befitting that all Seniors should wear a distinctive, appropriate, and uniform dress. An evening dress, worn as a morning costume, is manifestly absurd, and its inappropriateness undeniable. The gown has of old been regarded as the fit dress of scholars, and is unquestionably the only garment suitable for collegiate celebrations. Our faculty showed that they were convinced of this when they decided to appear in gowns on Commencement Day, and no reasonable objections can be offered against the adoption of them by Seniors on both the public celebrations. Their adoption does...
...seventy-two is not really a great one, but it serves for a guide-post to mark our way. The road we are travelling is a rough one. Barriers in the shape of prejudice and custom delay us; still our progress is steady. On calling his roll, the other day, an instructor remarked that the process took up time that might be employed much more profitably. He held out hopes that the time was not far distant when it might be done away with entirely, and Juniors and Sophomores, as well as Seniors, would no longer be obliged to attend...