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...Cap Committee - W. W. Smith, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. B. Wade, St. Louis; N. H. Swayne, New York City...
...first is in respect to the cap and gown. Last year there was much discussion of arguments for and against the change, the chief argument on the one hand being that the cap and gown was out of keeping with our custom and nearly an imitation of the English colleges, and on the other hand that it was a more suitable dress than the conventional evening dress suit. The experiment was tried and it succeeded. The cap and gown met with the commendation not only of the whole class but of the college and outsiders besides. Considering then the former...
...other point is in regard to the class song. While it is probable that there are men who doubt the advantages of the cap and gown, there can be few who did not recognize a decided improvement in the abolishing of the class song. The class song has grown to be a very minor affair, and as regards its part in the programme at the tree exercises, considerable of a farce. It has never been learned and never sung with any unity or heartiness. The substitution of Fair Harvard last year was a welcome change. Everyone knows...
...years past it has been the custom of the Senior class to wear dress suits from early morning to night, but this year the last radical change in Class-day observances was made in abolishing that garb to the more appropriate cap and gown...
There will be a radical change in Class-day this year in the introduction of the cap and gown, but aside from this, to the ordinary observer, the exercises will be essentially the same as last year. Yet there are certain changes in detail every year and it is by these small changes that Class-day has developed from a very simple observance to its present form. It may be interesting to students themselves as well as to their friends to know just what the history of Class...