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...class reassembles in front of Holworthy Hall, preceded by the Marshals of the Day, the orators, poet, and odist, marches, about the yard to Sanders' Theatre where the literary exercises of the day take place. There the class oration, ivy oration and the poem are read, and the ode is sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard," the programme being equally divided between the serious and the humorous...
...class oration and ode are sober and more or less pretentious affairs, while the poem and ivy oration are directly the opposite. Both aim to give, in a humorous way, the history of the class, and the ivy oration, although the most recent addition to the custom of the day, is the gem of the day. This position grew out of the old custom that when a president went out of office the class of that year should plant an evergreen to his memory and sometimes an ivy was substituted. While the planting went on it was the custom...
...FRIDAY.Class Day Exercises. Prayer by Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D. - Oration by Hugh McKennan Landon.-Poem by Robert Morss Lovett. - Ivy Oration by Alexander Moss White, Jr. - Ode by Samuel Pitts Duffield. Sanders Theatre...
...Sargent prize of one hundred dollars for the best metrical translation of an Ode of Horace was yesterday awarded to Miss Margaret Foster Herrick of the Annex. The committee consisted of Rev. Samuel Longfellow, Dr. Santayana, and James Goswell of the Brierly School, New York...
Seminary of Classical Philology. Paper by Mr. F. K. Ball on The Influence of the Verse on Inflexion in Virgil's Hexameters; by Mr. E. D. McCollom, on the Parable in Pindar's Fourth Pythian Ode. Sever...