Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class there will be a biologist, a superintendent of public schools, a commission merchant, two draughtsmen, three writers and literary critics, an iron founder, a coffee cultivator, a musician, a geologist, an entomologist, a mining expert, a forester, a gas engineer, three military men, a dentist, a wholesale grocer, a dealer in live stock, an actor, an artist, and a missionary...
First came the Seniors, dressed in long red gowns with black Oxford caps. They had with them on a dray, a model of the Harvard statue, supported by burlesque personations of a butcher, a cooper, and a grocer, in allusion to the father and two step-fathers of John Harvard, who left their little fortunes to his mother, whence the property passed to him to endow finally the infant college. The group was labelled "Johnnie Harvard's Pas." The Seniors carried also a transparency worded as follows: "We are the oldest living graduates...