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...proper manner in which the student celebration should be conducted. An entire day is to be occupied by student exercises, and great care must therefore be taken in preparation. Among the numerous suggestions were literary exercises in the morning by the students, some athletic exhibition in the afternoon, a torch-light procession illustrating the history of the university, followed by a grand ball in Memorial Hall and the gymnasium in the evening. The committee do not wish to act hastily, or without the advice of the students. It is therefore expected that suggestions will be made to the committee...
...have been negligent of late and should be awakened to the interests of the band. A brass band is an honor of which the college ought to be proud, and those who are able to play any band instrument should not let this organization decline for want of torch-light processions...
...their interior, pictures of the yard, and all the other scenes so well known to us. Nor are the students themselves neglected. There is a view of Memorial in full operation, of a base-ball game on Holmes, and of the Harvard Princeton foot-ball game on Jarvis. The torch-light procession also is depicted accurately and strikingly, and the way we go to prayers is revealed in a manner which exposes the barbarity of the Overseers' character in its true light. Many other illustrations are given which are both amusing and instructive. There are scenes from class...
...will be illustrated by stereopticon views. Among the views will be the interior of the library, interior of Memorial at lunch time, an instantaneous picture of the men running to chapel just as the last notes of the bell are ringing out, several portraits of participants in the torch light procession, and many other pictures equally interesting. Judging from the careful preparation, we think the lecture will be of great interest to us all here at Harvard, and even more so to those who are not as well acquainted with Harvard, and its surroundings, as are the students. The enterprise...
...first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured up! "Is he, is he dead?" I murmur. "Oh, no, the faculty forbade-." Here we hear a smothered yelping as of some one in pain, but are reassured, the somewhat astonished, to hear that "it is only my pup that...