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Hammersmith: His Harvard Days. By M. S. SEVERANCE...
...balloting on Commencement Day to fill the vacancies in the Board of Overseers resulted in the following choice: Alexander McKenzie, Le Baron Russell, R. M. Hodges, Robert D. Smith, and Charles R. Codman...
After these interesting exercises spreads were in order, which were thronged with ladies and their friends all the afternoon. At 5 P. M. the Senior class reassembled, cheered the buildings, and then proceeded to take part in the exercises around the Tree. It is fortunate that the Freshmen were not admitted, as there was not enough room for the Juniors and Sophomores to swing around the tree. "Teas" then followed, and occupied the time until 8 o'clock, when dancing began at Memorial Hall. The Glee Club sang from the steps of Holworthy about 9 P. M., and the "real...
...about 2.30 P. M. on Commencement Day the august procession of the Alumni entered Memorial Hall to the tune of "Johnny Morgan." The hall was well filled, though most of the recent Alumni had been attracted to the ball-game; and the exercises were undisturbed by any noisy demonstrations, or by any attempts on the part of the Sophomores to obtain a share of the "equal feast." At the close of the dinner, Professor John Langdon Sibley was conducted to the head of the table to lead the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, after which Dr. Samuel Eliot...
Other speakers were Colonel Henry Lee, the Treasurer of the Memorial Fund, Hon. Leverett Saltonstall for the Board of Overseers, and Rev. Edward Everett Hale for the class of 1839. The exercises closed at 6.30 P. M., with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne...