Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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No less successful in their way were the afternoon exercises. At 5.15 the class cheered the buildings, and then entered the enclosure about the tree, where the other classes received them, and the customary exercises, including the singing of the class song, written by Mr. Earl B. Putnam, of Waterville...
The exercises were ended by the singing of the class ode, which was gracefully written by Mr. E. C. Perkins, of Boston. As a whole, the literary exercises of the Class of '79 were by far the best that have been given by any class at Harvard for many years...
The orator, Miss Margaret Tippet, a lady whose massive brow was partly shaded by a halo of auburn curls, and who wore a dark gray polonaise trimmed with Valenciennes lace was loudly applauded on rising to deliver her oration. As this was in Greek, we have tried to translate it...
After about fifteen minutes, when the applause which burst forth spontaneously at this brilliant sally, had somewhat abated, Miss Rosamond Mortimer, the poet, was escorted on to the stage. Her appearance was in every respect romantic. Her profile was of the purest Grecian type, excepting her nose, which, being a...
"FOR once in my life," I thought through the rehearsals,