New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-28
HARVARD COMMENCEMENT DAY.
GRADUATING EXERCISES AT CAMBRIDGE
GOVERNOR AMEs AND SECRETARY FAIRCHI0
PRESENT AT THE CEREMONIES.

GRADUATING EXERCISES AT CAMBRIDGE
GOVERNOR AMES AND SECRETARY EAIRCHun
PRESENT AT THE cERRMoSlys.
Cambridge. June o7-without being so briIljsnt
or so characteristics a Harvard day as the Harvard
Class Day, a Harvard Commencement Day, neys,
theess, speaks TO the graduate Of tho Cambrdc.
University In way that recalls to his mind moro o.
the old college. Class day is, after all, fssuys,
for young men and young maidens. C0mmeneemenf
Day is the old graduates day and as such be enovs
It to the uttermost. In the morning come the res
graduating exercises and here young men rrsdom
mate In the afternoon, however, the old graduate
becomes supreme Just before Two O'Clock . hs
procession of graduates forms In the college yad
marches after the board to Memorial Hall, when
around a neagre feast that is mistakenly called
"dnner" the merry old graduate listens to statements
Of college finances, to ringing speeches and 10 witty
impromptu remarks. Probably fifteen hundred gradu
ates listen to and applaud these speeches. for moro
appreciatve listeners exist In the world than IN
to be found at Harvard commencement dinner
All the time that this dinner is being held, and even
before It, while the orators OF the graduating cas
are testing the endurance OF an audience over Ia
Sanders Theatre, the various classes, way back 70
1880, are getting cordial and merry over punches h
the college rooms over in the yard. After punches
and the dinner, big group of former glee club men
assemble in front Of HOlworthy, and sing I'll
the dear old songs OF other days
Dinner, punches, and singing being 1t
length concluded the yard becomes quiet again late
IN the afternoon, and Commencement Day is trans
ferred to Boston, where many class dinners are held
This morning Governor Ames and stat, escorted
by the National Lanclers, proceeded to Harvard Cox
lego to attend the commencement exercises. They
were received by President Eliot and escorted to San
ders Theatre where the literary exercises took place
Two hundred and thirty-four young men graduated
from the college division this year sixtysx Others
became doctors and thirty-three are now made Law.
yers, who the other professional schools sent out
small army Of disciplined soldiers into the battle for
place and p>cser.
OF tho college class 10 took honorable mention;
slxty-six graduated laude; fifteen, magma cum
laude, and eighteen, summa cum laude C. II. Good
win, f. d. Kaopothakes, r. c. Manning and j. W.
Walden took honors in the classics; NJ, A. De Wolfe
Howe took highest honors iD English; W. r. Hender.
son secured hopors In modern literature, while w. A.
Leahy got highest honors. In philosophy, " T.
Williams took hopors in political science, and z g
honors IN history to While highest honors went 70 =
Beverly Williams. W. r. spauldng. took honors In
SGch SpGr K h %
highest honors going to II. b. Gibson.
H. I %sdeD Mos
telectual side of American Character H. Page Mar
Gus Agrelius as Man Of Action C. u sempen,
MOVEMENT U 4 from an Ethical Point q View W O.
Thompson. industrial Training IN our Public
uel wlllistOn Qaw School orator., " The Growth Of
Corporate Power" C. X. Burr, W: s. Bryant and Theo.
dore Durham, graduates of the Medical School,
also on the programme for commencement parts.
Second-year hoDors have been awarded at Harvard
Brown, of Brooklyn. Only three times befon in the
last twenty. years has any sophomore succeeded il
carrying on 'hODOrs in both these departments Of
study.
At the meeting OF the Board OF overseers this morn
Ing the honorary degree Of A. " wa. conferred on
John W. Chadwick of Brooklyn; the honorary degree
q LII was conferred on Secretary Charles ssbons
r. 8 and SDs bs
.vermore, Of Meadville Theological Seminary.
A joint committee of the president and Fellows and
of the oyerseers was appointed 70 bring those bodies
10 which there Is now divergence Of opinion.
ind marched to the alumni dinner in Memorial Hall.
Joseph Choats Of NowXoEk presided brilliant
,mor Ames, Lieutenant. Governor Bracket, Charles
t@ ADAMS alexander Agassiz CHARLES Fair
we're among the speakers. Robert c: winthrop spoke
ouchingly for the class of 1925 Judge DeveDs spoke
The annual meeting Of the Alumni Association was
leld at 10 a. m, President Joseph II, choate in the
aye reached 1927 1886 interest sI4oaa; paid to the
A resolution was adopted to the effect that It is
dvisabe for the college to publish annually the ad
resses of all living alumni.
The Committee on Nominations presented tho fol-
owing Names and the gentlemen we're unanimously
residents, Manning T. Force, Cincinnati; Henry J.
,igelow, Boston; Horace Davis, San Fran
rstt ssl9onstaD Newton an Charles snSy Eor
on, Cambridge; Robert T. Lincoln, Chicago
'ew-York, and Charles c. Beaman, New-York
Dlrectors-samuel A. Green, Boston; Henry s.
,eed Boston; Arthur Lincoln, bingham Francis N.
Vced, Boston John ID. Washburn, Worcester James
;. Thayer Cambridge, and Bradbury L. Cflley, Ex-
er, N. III. Treasurer, S. Lothrop Thorndike, Cam
ridge; secretary, Henry Parker Boston.