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...exercises were opened by the Glee Club which sang the first and last verses of the "Harvard Hymn" in Latin, to the music of the "Commencement Hymn." Dean Briggs then spoke briefly of the purpose of the meeting, and said that the rewards of the scholars in the University were less evident than those of the athletes, who could command audiences of thousands. He introduced Dr. Wm. Everett '59, who spoke on the value of a scholar's training and on the value of the student to the world in every department of life...
...winners of the Bowdoin and other prizes, the men who have obtained second year and final honors, those to whom deturs are to be awarded, and the scholars of the first and second groups will be present at the meeting. The invited guests will be the Board of Overseers, the Faculty and other officers of the University, winners of academic distinctions in former years, the governor of Massachusetts and the mayor of Cambridge, the presidents of the classes, the head masters of schools whose pupils' names appear in the list, and certain representatives of the press. Several prominent men will...
Among the speeches to be given on the morning of the first day at the South Congregational Church, Boston, are two by Harvard men: An address of welcome by Josiah Quincy '80, and a paper on "The Selection and Training of Colonial officials in England, Holland and France," by Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell '77. In the evening, Roger Wolcott '70, will give a second address of welcome...
Students who leave Cambridge for the Recess must first return all books borrowed from the Library...
...Sever 11 at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The reading will be from Dickens and will include the scene between David and Dora from "David Copperfield," "The Cratchit's Christmas Dinner," the last pages of "A Tale of Two Cities," and David Cabwber's separation from the Micawber. The first selection from "David Copperfield" will be the adaptation made by Dickens for his own reading...