Word: poem
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...going too fast. I have taken it for granted that we are to have exercises in the morning. I must stop. I am told that the oration and poem are dull and stupid, that no one wants to hear them, and that they only serve to tire people by bringing them here so early in the day. To this the answer is simple : the oration and poem have been a part of Class Day as long as there has been a Class Day. Every one knows what to expect of them, and year after year it has been impossible...
...subject of Mr. E. C. Stedman's Phi Beta Kappa poem is to be "Hawthorne...
...Bowen, President of the Institute, presided, and rising towards the middle of the supper, after expressing pleasure at seeing the first ten so well represented, called on Mr. E. C. Perkins for his poem. In reply, Mr. Perkins read his poem with his customary grace. Mr. McLennan was then asked to deliver his oration, which drew forth great applause from every...
...Stedman, of '63, will read the next Phi Beta Kappa poem at Harvard...
...buttonhole bouquets, but some poor fellows could n't afford this, and had little ribbons instead; I asked their names, but Mr. Proctor knew none. He advised me to go over to Appleton Lyceum to hear the exercises, which were very intellectual. I could understand some of the Poem, but the other parts were exceedingly deep. When these were ended we all went out to the Boylston Museum, and the class buried a tree...