Word: parquet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...graduating class assembled in front of Holworthy, and marched to the Chapel, where prayer was offered by Dr. Peabody. The exercises in Sanders Theatre began at 11.30, when the Senior Class entered the crowded auditorium and took their seats in the parquet. Dr. Peabody made the opening prayer. The Oration, which was delivered by Mr. Charles Moore, related to young men in politics. His views of the present condition of the Civil Service were bold, yet thoughtful, straightforward, but not opinionated, and were received with applause by the audience in the galleries as well as by his class. There...
...long must we wait before undergraduate ushers will learn that it is decidedly not the correct thing, on Commencement Day at least, to leap over the railing in Sanders Theatre between parquet circle and parquet while in the presence of a respectable audience...