Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...clock in the morning the class escorted the President, professors and tutors to the chapel, preceded by a band playing solemn music. The exercises began with a short invocation by the President, and after the Scriptural reading, this was followed by a longer prayer of much fervor. The poem was then read and the singing club, accompanied by a band, contributed a song. The valedictory completed the programme, and in stately procession the class escorted the officers of the college to the President's house, where refreshments - wine, cake, and lemonade - were served. The afternoon was spent in drinking punch...
...University Chapel for the valedictory exercises of the Senior class. Oration by Devereux of Salem, poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small in distinction from the others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some good jokes. His poem was very happy and abounded with wit. Instead of a spiritual muse, he invoked for his goddess the ladies present, and in doing so he sang very amusingly of his "hapless amour with too tall a maid...
...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...
...Beta Kappa. Harvard Chapter. Business Meeting. Boylston Hall, Upper Lecture Room, 10 a. m. - Oration by Rev. Professor William J. Tucker. - Poem by Professor Ernest F. Fenollosa. Sanders Theatre...