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...audience was a notable one - with a sprinkling of the invited guests of the University, and a great crowd of graduates. The undergraduates who were fortunate enough to be first in the number that gathered at the north door, were admitted ten minutes before the service began. Before the rest had entered the standing room of the chapel was exhausted and the door was forced shut in spite of the pressure from the outside. The Anniversary Choir, with its magnificent volume of sound, again took part in the service. The hymn "Machet die Thore Weit" opened the service...
...college appeared to be living a new life, for graduates, old and young, came pouring in from every quarter. Undergraduate and alumnus vied with each other in showing their appreciation of the great event, and relieved from their daily routine, spent the greater part of the day in rest and quiet. The gayest-colored bunting displayed from the different buildings and houses outside the college shows that all Cambridge takes the keenest interest in the welfare of the university...
...platform and the floor will be reserved for the procession; section D of the lower gallery will be reserved until 10 minutes before 1 o'clock for invited guests of the University; and sections C and E for graduates of the University wearing badges, with ladies accompanying them. The rest of the theatre will be open to the public, and there will be no tickets for admission...
...following music in Sanders Theatre at 4 p.m.: Prelude (Oedipus) - Paine; Toccata - Bach; Largo - Haendel; Symphony - Beethoven. Section D of the lower gallery will be reserved for the invited guests of the University until 10 minutes before 4. Graduates of the University wearing badges will be admitted to the rest of the theatre until 10 minutes before 4. Each gentleman may be accompanied by one lady. At 5 minutes before 4 the doors will be opened to the public, if any room remain...
...effect is truly startling. Long, long years have passed since these gay folk lived and loved and fought and made merry in the old Palatinate. Havoc and desolation have swept the city time and again since then. They had their day and went to rest; and their bones have long since dropped quietly to dust. Yet some weird spell has called them from the grave. Here they are once more, riding through these same streets, with the same trappings, the same armor, the same music and, in the case of historical personages, almost the same features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes...