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...their names and tabular views as a sign of their desire to take such work. Carefully consulting these tabular views, Mr. Hayes has judiciously selected hours which would suit the majority of them. But it now appears that the recitation hours are attended by an average on only about fifteen men. This can be accounted for only by the fact that the rest of those one hundred and twenty men, with the exception of those whom the chosen hours do not suit, prefer private instruction to that acquired by recitations. This preference Mr. Hayes thinks erroneous...
...University was emblazoned, was raised on the summit of the pavilion. At an early hour all the avenues leading from the city of Boston and its environs to Cambridge were thronged; and by nine o'clock the Alumni and invited guests, to the number of more than fifteen hundred, assembled in University Hall...
...same order as when it entered. The classes of the Alumni were again summoned, and solemn pauses again succeeded, until Mr. Emery walked down the aisle alone, and was greeted by testimonies of applause from his younger brethren. On leaving the church, the procession, including more than fifteen hundred individuals, proceeded to the left across the Common, and then, turning to the right, passed in front of the College edifices. By this arrangement, the graduates of the various classes passed in review before each other. After passing Dane Hall, the procession turned to the left, proceeded through Harvard street...
...tables were prepared to accommodate about fifteen hundred persons, and they were completely filled by the Alumni and their invited guests, except a division on the left of the President's chair, reserved for, and occupied by, the undergraduates...
...extraordinary to see how soon and how quietly fifteen hundred persons found places, each one seated and duly provided for the feast. On the left of the chair, the undergraduates of the University were seated, and thence to the extreme right extended row above row, and class after class, of Alumni, embracing every period of life, from the youth fresh from the studious hall, to the octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey, of Amherst College. For a time the dining...