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...view of the coming celebration, it may be interesting to know in what way our fathers celebrated the birthday of their Alma Mater fifty years ago. The following account of the doings of that memorable day is taken from the History of Harvard University, written by President Quincy...
...ninety-six years of age, was unable to attend. The classes from 1763 to 1773 were successively named, but solemn pauses succeeded; they had all joined the great company of the departed, or, sunk in the vale of years, were unable to attend the high festival of their Alma Mater. At length, when the class of 1774 was named, Mr. Samuel Emery came forward; a venerable old man, a native of Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, who, at the age of eighty-six, after an absence of sixty years from the Halls of Harvard, had come from his residence in Philadelphia...
...congratulation. More than this we cannot say, but in the name of Harvard we present our thanks to the members of the freshman nine, and trust that the example they have set for future freshmen may be followed in the same spirit of enthusiasm and loyalty to their Alma Mater, as has been shown by eighty nine...
...honor to the occasion, not only by their action, but by their names. And now comes the result of the meeting of the undergraduate committee, which occurred last night, as reported in another column, to confirm our hopes of a celebration next autumn which shall do our Alma Mater more than credit in the eyes of the world. We think the order of the festivities as allotted for the three different days, is an excellent one. Sunday coming between the two days of the greater eclat will tend to relieve the monotony which must otherwise ensue from three successive days...
...present undergraduates. This is a chance which will come to us but once, so let us seize it and have a glorious celebration in every sense of the word. We should count ourselves very lucky in being able to take part in the quarter-millennial anniversary of our Alma Mater. We trust that the newly elected committee will formulate some plan without delay, and we have perfect confidence in their ability to get up a rousing celebration...