Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...illustrated programme of the Harvard and Yale boat-race will be ready for sale on the day of the race. It will contain portraits of each member of both crews, with a view of the boat-house and a plan of the course. Those who do not attend the race can obtain copies by leaving their addresses at Sever's. Price, 25 cents...
...class song, written by Mr. Earl B. Putnam, of Waterville, N. Y., took place. The various spreads and teas, the dancing at Memorial Hall, the illuminations, and the singing of the Glee Club in the evening were all thoroughly enjoyed. In every way the observance of the Class Day of '79 was successful. It was a fitting close for a glorious college career. A class could desire no more appropriate day for the turning-point of their lives, - for the day on which they look back over the four years of the college course, live over again its joys...
...CHARLES FAIRCHILD has been appointed Chief Marshal for Commencement Day. Aids - John C. Palfrey, F. C. Barlow, Chas. F. Walcott, Franklin Haven, Jr., B. W. Crowninshield, O. W. Holmes, Jr. Marshals - George S. Hale, Edward Hayden, S. Parkman Blake, Jr., James A. Rumrill, Benj. H. Ticknor, John Murray Brown, Arthur G. Sedgwick, Edward B Robins, Chas. C. Read, George H. Mifflin, Samuel Hoar, George R. Shaw, Roger Wolcott, George F. Babbitt, Samuel D. Warren, Jr., Samuel Sherwood, Percival Lowell, John T. Bowen, George S. Silsbee, The Alumni and invited guests will assemble at Massachusetts Hall, at 2 o'clock...
LAST Friday was such a day as the Class of '79 deserved to have for their Class Day. At 9.30 the class assembled in front of Holworthy, and marched to the Chapel, where prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Peabody. At about 11.30 the exercises in Sanders Theatre began. After the prayer by Dr. Peabody, Mr. Henry Coolidge Mulligan, of Natick, the orator of the day, was introduced. His oration was thoughtful and vigorous. Without overstepping the bounds of his subject, he contrived to make the time-worn theme fresh and interesting, and to say something which the members...
...playfully mentioned that Miss -- tried to secure the election to Beta Kappa Phi, over Miss X., by wearing the most graceful Parisian costumes, and at this point her sage remarks on the frivolity of dress were both apt and original. In conclusion, she looked forward expectantly to the day when the fair sex should exclude men from every post of honor and responsibility. "Kai yap" (she went on), "are not wives gifted with an extraordinary faculty of extracting secrets from their husbands?" (At this point some gentleman in the audience murmured, as if in pain, "Alas! yes!") "Finally...