Word: punching
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 and dancing on the green. In 1826 the graduating class was escorted to its exercises by the famous Harvard Washington Corps. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was poet of the class '29. The following extract from a diary is of interest...
...that the festivities of Class-day began to change, and in that year the custom arose of the Senior class treating all comers to iced punch in the afternoon of that day. From this time on, the solemnity of the occasion gradually disappeared...
...Monthly for July opens with a short but entertaining article by Edward Everett Hale on "Class Day in 1838 and 1839." Mr. Hale gives an interesting account of Class Day as it was fifty years ago, when the exercises were few and simple, and the punch, served in "the grove" near Appleton Chapel, was free to all in Cambridge. After the exercises around the tree, the visitors danced in front of Stoughton to the music of the Brigade band. The grandeurs of Class Day have certainly increased since those days, and the punch is no longer free...
...sunt, o pocula?" said he, "is a question I must ask of my friend Mr. Louis Clark, translating for his benefit, 'Where's them cups?' " He assured the guests that they had enough money collected to buy thirteen fine silver cups, one for each player, besides a great silver punch bowl, to be called the "Cumnock Cup" in honor of the first victorious captain for the foot ball association of Harvard. On this punch bowl was to be left space on which to record the deeds of victorious teams. On the first space was to be the performance...
...completed the list of speakers by cleverly reading a freshman's account of a Rugby foot ball game, from Punch...