Word: poems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sayles Memorial Hall, a handsome stone building but recently presented to the university. The opening programme consisted of an address by the president of the class, Mr. James H. Spencer, an oration by Mr. A. R. Dilts, the well-known captain of the nine, and the poem, entitled "The Hesperian," by Samuel W. Foss...
Class day at Columbia occurred last Friday. Besides the usual oration, poem and presentations, a number of rollicking parodies on "Patience" were sung, applied locally...
...Worth monument at 10 P.M., the students wearing white gowns and carrying torches. Preceding the procession will be a band of music, while a wagon, carrying an effigy of the "vanquished foe" will bring up the rear. Ambrose D. Henry will be the imperator of the evening; a poem will be read by the haruspex, J. Foster Jenkins, Jr., and J. H. Ward, Jr., the carnifex, will deliver the oration. These exercises will be held on the college campus, after which the students and guests will march to the American Institute building and enjoy the convivium until morning...
...Edward Hale, who was graduated at Exeter in 1875 and Harvard in 1879, has accepted an invitation to give the centennial poem at Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity had their society dinner at Young's Hotel Wednesday evening. President Burnham, '82, presided. After toasts, responded to by the different members, the oration was delivered by H. E. Barnes, '84, and the poem was read by G. R. Nutter...