New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-22
IN FAIR HARvARDS |" YARD.s
SENIORS ENJOY THE STRUGGLE FOB TIN
CLASS DAY ROSES.
DAY FULL OF INTEREST 10 HARVARD Nh
AND THEIR FRdENps-ExBRo1sEs Ac
ADVERTISEMENTS, DANCING
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIRuMAl


Cambridge Mass, juno 21.-This was clso 6R
at Harvard, when the seniors. with festivity end
merry making, prepare TO bid farewell to friends INA
scenes endeared by four years Of intimate assocaonJ
The weather was perfect The yard closed around
with tho venerable buildings and rooted over by he
branching oms furnished attractive place - tie
centre Of the proceedings. Early in the morning Tie
unusual activity in the yard, tho noise OF the car
pentes putting up the fence to shut out Objectionable
people and erecting stands for the band and dee
club, and the rumbing Of tho caterers and horbtt
wagons, bringing eatables aud decorations for us
spreads gave sign that something extraordinary ~
In the air. At O'Clock the seniors attended prayers
in q body at Appleton Chapel. and aftervsrd break
tasted with President Eliot. These prelimnsnss
over there was lull until IL O'Clock. when III
Seniors in conventional dress SUITS formed in hns
In front Of Howorthy, and. headed by the band anl
conducted by the marshals Perry d. Traford. Fan
River, Mass; E. c. Storrow, Brookline, Mass, ana
J. T. Davis ST. Louis, No., proceeded. two hundrod
and fifty strong Sanders Theatre. Tho theatre Wa
already filled with brilliant assemblage of the relatives
and friends Of the outgoing class The exercises
opened with prayer by the venerable Or. Andrew P@
Peabody, whose grave words uttered in that sweet
and forcble way characteristic OF him greatly I'M
pressed tho audience. The class Oraion was delivered
BY W. W. Magee, Of Groveland, y. Y. Following this
came the class poem by Carleton Zimmerman, Ro1buryy
Mass. Oliver Prescott jr, New. Bedford, Mass, the
wit OF tho class, gave tho "ivy" grafton. sparkling
with humor and envened with hits at the faculty and
overscers. The singing Of the ode written by r. h
" Dodge of Brookne Mass, closed these formal
exercises.
Tho afternoon taken up with dancing IN
Memorial Hall, which decorated with festoons
and ported plants Many In attendance at the
spreads which arc a distinctive feature OF the day,
The largest was given In Hemmenway Gymnasium,
where some 800 600 guests were entertained. Ex.
al prihd I'M
Club the Delta Epsilon and the Pi Eta. Besides thess
there were some thirty spreads by individuals.
During the afternoon there was music In the yset
and toward O'Clock tho people began TO make thslA
way the space between Holden Chapel and Harvard
Hall, where seats had been erected to Wow the
traditional exercises at the tree While the uDdsrs
graduates fling in and taking seats on tho
around tho tree tho seniors dressed in ragged trousers
sweaters old hats and motley garb Of all sorts marched
around the yard and chcered the college buildings
and then took their places close around ths
tree. The spectacle one which fof
brightness and color and pretty fsess
IS rarely cxcclled The three lower classes and the
graduates led by tho seniors, cheered 10 succession
each other the college officials, the athletic teams tho
lalcs, and finally gave three times nine for Harvard
Then after singing their class song the seniors sur
rounded by the revolving circles Of undergraduates;
mako each frantic rush 10 secure q memorial anl
treasured blossom from the wreaths placed about TIA
tree fairly difficult height The lower flowers ars
soon secured. Men raised on the shoulders Of
their friends to reach the higher ones. but are quickly
pulled down by anxious rivals. Finally the last leaf
was secured and these brief but unique and interesting
exercises were over.
During the exercises at the tree the yard Wa
cleared and thereafter but tic ketholders wsre al
luved within tho quadrangle. In the evening there
was dancing IN Memorial Hall, and also At tho rm-
nasum which had been beautifully trimmed for ne
occasion with evergrens and ho"ers Inc yAI
thi, time presented pretty sight Tho chinese iant
strung fOm tree TO tree gave out their ann ons
The Harvard Cleo Club made the air ring with college
songs and In the intervals the band dscoursed swess
music. 1t occasion to Be remembered and VII
furnish many pleasant "reminiscences TO all VINO we're
concerned In It especially 70 tho y1anE ladies' ana 20
mittes who had charge Of the arrangements, consisted
OF c. H. Thayer. Worcester, Mass. O. s Keys ~
ton and J. II. Scars, OF Boston.