Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CLASS DAY has two sides. The Senior's side is bright; the world seems made for him, at least for that one day. But for the undergraduate who has had to give up his room and has no friends present, Class Day has its dark side; he is lonely in spite of the gayety around him. Such a melancholy undergraduate linked his arm in mine as we crossed the Yard after the lights were out, and poured forth the following lament...
...present at the tree? Yes, I rather enjoyed sitting on the grass and looking up at the windows. Very pretty were the bits of color, - crimson, white, and blue, - that relieved the dull, grim red of the old buildings. But the exercises seemed a good deal of a farce to me. I fell down, and was stepped on, and the ladies laughed, - so I was glad to get out again...
...written by Mr. E. C. Perkins, of Boston. As a whole, the literary exercises of the Class of '79 were by far the best that have been given by any class at Harvard for many years, - certainly the best that have been heard by any one who is at present a student in the University. They were worthy of the class...
Candidates in Course I. who offer any additional mathematical subject must present themselves at the time appointed for that subject in this programme...
When you return to Cambridge in the autumn there are several places at which you will do well to present yourselves. In the first place you should visit the Chapel, although there may be no service going on, and although you may have a few other opportunities of viewing its interior (decorated by Mr. MacPherson). A few moments' meditation there will calm, soothe, and prepare you for the ordeal which must immediately follow. If the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals has not left the key, where he generally keeps it, under the mat, you may obtain it from the Professor...