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...following Overseers were elected on Commencement Day: For six years, - O. W. Holmes, Jr., James Elliot Cabot, Stephen Salisbury, William Amory, Francis Greenwood Peabody. For five years, - Moorfield Story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...their meeting on Commencement Day the Overseers passed the following resolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...their meeting held on Commencement Day, the Class of 1859 passed resolutions expressing deep sorrow at the loss of their beloved and honored classmate, Heyward Cutting, of New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...hoped that the College will continue to have a Latin Salutatory on Commencement Day as successful, as intelligible, as appropriate, as was Mr. Strobel's, rather than some learned disquisition on some abstruse, uninteresting subject. It is almost without precedent for a Latin oration to be applauded during its delivery, as was that of last Commencement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »

...CLASS DAY, or the mutilated affair which took the place of that ancient rite, was a success. The day itself was perfect, - no heat, no dust, no rain. The Seniors seemed to be bound that the quality of the amusement should make up for the quantity. The sensations in the morning were rather singular; sharing in expectancy of something to come, the missing of something that was not, and a general feeling of lie-on-the-grass laziness taking precedence of all other emotions. The average undergraduate discussed the chances of the match, the amount of money he was going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY. | 7/3/1877 | See Source »