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...First Marshal: Manning, 83; Pendleton, 69; Wendell, 5. Manning elected...
...Third Marshal: Babcock, 82; Wendell, 35; Stone, 22; Olmsted, 3; Bowen, 2. Babcock elected...
...Second Marshal: Pendleton, 76; Wendell, 49; F. M. Stone, 13; Bowen, 12. Pendleton elected...
After tea the Delta and its vicinity was not thronged as usual with students in their most ragged attire, and with spectators; but ere long the sound of drum was heard, and soon a procession appeared, at the head of which was a drum-major, or grand-marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, followed by two students; the elegist, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks cropped so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers, six pall-bearers, with a six-foot coffin on their shoulders. They looked poverty-stricken...
...Third Marshal, Messrs. Folsom, Hammond, W. R, Thayer, Otis, and Squibb were nominated. The last two withdrew after the informal ballot, and Mr. Hammond after the third, Mr. Thayer being elected on the fourth...