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...representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre...
...Junior Class held next place in the parade. Their costume was the most effective of the class uniforms: a red coat with blue facings, buff vest crossed by a blue belt, buff knee-breeches and black hose, and a black and buff cocked...
...came "The oldest printing press in the colony," loaned by the Boston Globe. It was in charge of Messrs. Storrow and Elgutter, '87, the former representing a primitive Hollander with a long clay pipe, and the latter, a regulation Indian. Two men dressed from head to foot in red and adorned with long tails - printer's devils - kept the old press in operation, and from time to time distributed to the crowd fac-simile copies of the title page of Eliot's Indian Bible, with two little verses on the back, said to have been composed for the occasion...
...this century, and consisted of the thirty laziest men in the class, of which the most supremely lazy was high admiral. About a dozen men dressed as sailors kept the memory of the club alive, and Mr. J. B. Blake '87, dressed in Admiral's uniform, lay on a red divan on a dray, - the laziest of the sluggards...
...Haven Cup, which now appeared, drawn on a low cart by two horses. It was ten feet high, and nine broad, was a very fair fac-simile of the cup itself, being made all the more realistic by being covered with silver paper. Seated on the rich folds of red cloth which swathed the base of the cup, were Messrs. J. M. Hallowell, '88, and H. D. Hale, '88, its proprietors. Immediately after the cup came a most...