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...Some 100 members of the Cory Hill Club propose to act as escort in the evening with torchers, etc., in a procession from Quincy House to the Union Hall. We should like to have any students join us. Names can be sent to C. W. Joy, Brookline...
...undergraduates care much to escort the Alumni on the 8th of November. The route will be very short, the procession very long, so that the march of the undergraduates will be very brief, hardly worth the trouble of preparation, the love of long waiting, the remaining in Cambridge on a day when the crowd of Alumni will fill all the buildings and deprive you of seeing or hearing speeches, etc. If he undergraduates are content to abandon the escort, I should, for the above reasons, be glad. Yours truly, HENRY...
...leaving University Hall, the procession moved along the principal avenues within the college grounds, through the gateway between Massachusetts and Harvard Halls, and, passing through the lines of the escort formed by the undergraduates, entered the Congregational Church. The galleries of the edifice had been reserved for the ladies, and, after the entrance of the procession, every part of the building was filled by a crowded audience. After a voluntary on the organ, the Rev. Dr. Ripley offered a solemn and fervent prayer. Although more than eighty years of age, he spoke in a clear and powerful voice. Like...
...Monday, November the 8th, Alumni Day, the graduates of all departments of the University and guests will meet in Massachusetts Hall, at 10 a.m., and proceed thence to Sanders' Theatre, under escort of the undergraduates, where an address will be made by James Russell Lowell, LL. D., and a poem delivered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, LL. D., and honorary degrees will be conferred by the University...
...interest in athletics by complimenting them upon the promise they had shown. He told them that he had recently visited Harvard University, and while there was shown through the handsome gymnasium. In a case he noticed a number of colored balls, which, the young gentleman who acted as his escort said, were trophies of base-ball games won from other colleges. These were in each case painted with the college colors. "By the way" said he, "what are the Columbia colors?" "Blue and white," said I. He looked over the balls very carefully, but failed to find any with...