The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-28
A SALT LAKE BOY AT HARVARD.
Sights and Scenes at the Recent
Celebration.

days lives on-a week mas gone by, the
gay b@Ei,ngs and parti- colored flags no
longer fes;oon the houses; crowds no
longer haunt the thoroughfares as was
taeir won't week ago. The very
houses themselves, which then were
reused 70 summation ana the occasion
now appear dull and stupid as ever
They have resumed their usual apa-
thctic state. The baked meats" are
s-arcely cold and yet this change-or
rather -eIapse-has come about. A reeS
ago now different
Let me recall some OF the events
Saturday,, November 6, was the day
when The alumni OF the Harvard law
SchOO. met TO form themselves into ~
association; which once formed. called
20 = Chiet executive office, Judge
Carter. OF New York. Judge Holmes
OF the SIrreme Judiciary OF MassachU-
tets. son OF the famous Oliver Wendell
Holmes. was the orator of the day
Sunday morning and evening Phillips
Brooks, the renowned Boston divine.
preached to throngs in Appleton
chapel. In the afternoon the Boston
symphony Club rendered "a sacred
concert before the University and Their
1 friends. Monday, November Sth. how
ever, was the great day. President
! Cleveland was the distinguished guest
] of the day.
| Early morning: but the streets OF
| Cambridge are rife with stir and hustle
| The day advances. LOng-drawn tTo BPS
Of soldiery with their gaudv, yellow
| trappings ride hurriedlY 10 the street,
of Cambridge Town" After them. a.
I intervals, come mounted brass band,
| forming q curious spectacle. These are
! but the advance guard of the process
SION containing Cleveland and cabinet
! Presently a flourish OF trumpsts ana
loud huzzshs proclaim the President
approach. The carriages are soon IN
sighU-we are all perched upon fence
and elSewherT-ihe procession mus;
pass befo.e and beneath US, so we shall
obtain a fair view. The partly-bai-
and massive head and imposing figu e
of the President make him known -
all. We all get good look at Grove. -
who at times mods and bows - II
placently AT the GROWING mCltit-C
whose homage he is receiving. ami j..
which. of course, the multitude sees
thankful.
The presidential carriage passes on
and between the drawn up lines OF the
advance cavalry, We recognize IL
the next carriage the smooth /
decisive cut f4ce. of Secretary OF !
State Bayard, and the Secretary 81
the Navy Whitney, of New York. with
his high shining beaver aud eye glasses |
as represented in cartoons OF the comic |
papers. Then there is Lamar. OF Ar !
kansas distinguishsble by ais long iron !
gray beard; EndicOtt. of MaSsachu
eli no 5r,k
officials; Whiteiaw Reid and other men
of local aud general prominence IN poll /
tics, and so ther are shaded OF into |
groups of less and less importance.
Mind you, the procession comes from 4
Boston. We await il at the college !
grounds. The older aud more recent /
graduates of Harvard are here drawn !
up in line. A grand foot procession ! !
formed at whose head Is President I
Cleveland followed by the other invite
guests of the day. After the invitei !
guests, come the various faculties III 1
their long black gowns and mortar !
boards, followed by the graduates. One !
sees old men on the verge OF the grave /
so old are they, lettering along Win the /
bit OF badge indicative OF which class /
they belong 10. They all seem happy !
THAT heaven has bounteously length !
ened out their DAYS that they might /
behold this scene" aud so they ali /
march on furgetful OF bodily aches and I
mental cares. living only in the excite |
ment of the hour. Small wonder that |
they should get excited. We students. |
even the day after the celebration ana |
the next. are forever hearing the /
flourish of trumpets, the clash of men |
in saddle, and are seeing the long,
never-ending lines OF the procession. |
Where did the procession march 70 > !
The circuit OF the college yard con- |
pleied, the procession continued on its l
march 10 Sanders Theatre, which I /
have said before forms the east wing OF /
the large memorial building. Here. |
James Russell Lowell delivered the an- |
niversary ode, while Oliver Wendell |
Holmes. full OF years, but still the |
genial "autocrat' he has ever been, I
follows with poem. Speeches are
made, followed by the comforting of
honorary degrees ILL. d. upon those
deemed worthy of that especial diStinc-
ton.
OF course the elite of the country Is
there; Boston's bluest blood is out to-
day; fashionable turnOuts line the
streets. l must not forget 10 mention
that prominent among the audience in
a dark, close fitting costume, is Mrs.
Grover Cleveland, who sits demurely
in her "coign of vantage observed 0y
every one at his own sweet will.
OF the banquets that followed
we need say nothing. but imagine
them. Presumably there occurred the
usual grooming of tables beneath
their loads OF delicacies," as the country
editor puts il. However. that is not for
Us 70 say. but when the wreck was
cleared away, the odor OF the flowers,
the bOquet presumably, seemed 10 have
permeated the very walls Of memo
rial itself. latter many days
Where were the students proper all
this timer IL a student be asked con
corning that day of days, he would,
perhaps, as he often does say. "Frigidus
dies est qTtm SuHHs siRistnvr," a rather
free Interpretation OF which is, It's q
cold DAY when We get left" and so il Is.
Anyhow, the day was cold, but gen
orally speaking, your student was en-
Iirely Invested OF abstract "leftneSs. -
as the sequel will show. The half
being used for other purposes on tie
day OF the celebration, we were uncere-
ANONYMOUSLY fired for the rina being