New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-20
HARVARD'S CLASS DAY.
BRILLIANT FESTIVITIES UNDER LOWERING
SKIES.
ALL THE r1ME-HoxoRED EXERCISES CARRIED


OUT IN DUE FoRM-A LARGE ATTEND
ANcE AND GREAT INTEREST.
,sr TELEGRAPH TO THE ThIBcNE.1
cambr,dre June 19-Harvard's 255th class DAY w"S
celebrated to-day with all those brilliant eeN'i 80
which for the last forty years or more have Doo
c,ated with this college anniversary. But ONE ee 49,
was wanting to make 1t q most successiuh =. as one
and that was entirely pleasant weather. ~ so"s not
Of those negatively agreeable days wheh " 49, "a
rain much but when the sky remains 0'''
murky and the air cold. ,,o. IN front of
At o O'Clock the senior class asScniDS raarohed IN
Holworthv and to the music OF baha nSi ,, ~,
'~ 80, -. oravcr was offered by the Kew
r,rancis pea,odv Immediately after the eAei'i ~
the chanel the class breakfasted az tc i' , t,y
president Charles w. Eliot and chaV'eo WIZ a ho,n
luckv madens whom the president hau in'''0 y. 100,
him receive From AS to 10 80 there was 'no
,rn IN The proceedings, when seniors ana many ~.
Jun IA .'.O - rranar,ng 10 60 to Sanders Theale'
- ,ho nrocession of carriages from to"h' ia
Or r,ord mothers charming maidens anu ahA,ou
fathers began to arrive. Az lo'fo .iro So ond
assembled once more in front OF hoi"0iS' 80.
marched 70 Sanders Theatre, led by the fo''o"e
dov onIcers IN cap and gown Secretary Hofsoe "u
o"s oin' gre. .~pnaI Arthur James Cumnock; second
.~na1 DudIcv Stuart Dean: third MARSHAL eop"IA
Van Rensselaer, Crosby orator. Charles meS,.' 80.
noct Hugh McCullogh, jr; odist Sewah Oaio -
wv orator Arthur Boylston Nlchols' cnoiio" ,-ooa
10th Mckenzie: class-day committee, 'ohi 49,,
ncdoe lanes Arnold Lowell and Edward oaAViNo
ANeO - oor,u,ttee Arthur James Cumnock James
pnssh Jee and Minot Osgood Simons pho'osfapii1
counties. Harry Norman Rice, Border Bo"mah I'LL"
Thomas jefferson stead. o,r,, with
rh beautiful theatre was filed TO overfowlhs WIN
mothers, cousins. sisters and Others Hienus W -
Insulating class who listened with great interest," "
eS.a,sos which included the Grafton by Charles
tyos,ov wi,,ad n scholarly and able production tle
r, Inv Hugh McCulogh the ode by MI Br%cAc"
ana the humorous ivy Grafton OF Arthur 10y i'''H
Nichols the ex-presdent OF "The Lainpoou'
u was after the exercises at Sanders Ihea're ,n'
.,e real festivities Of the day began, from ;3o on u
- .ba rest ~ the afternoon. There was the uS"'
- for the tree exercises, the receptions at beoA
Uou..at the Heminway Gymnasium, atNo"'-t S'.1's
st AZ No. o5 Quncy-st. and Other places ~
q snneadss were in full progress Ihey "eIe tiois
with pretty girls from the bushing sisters OF os
~ ,pbo had come 10 their first class day 10 inc prouS
.,s,, VOW, and Boston bellies experienced In
.hosn Gala events The gay Costumes u'o
Sowers and decorations the strains OF music from
hidden recesses all made the general e"ecV Jill
,ant The spread at the Hemn"ay Uyilil"s"'' "
given by the following: James D. H. b"i""i'' '"I,e
Lowell. John A. Blanchard, Matthew Luce' ."
Border Bowman. John W. Mariner, |Al,n1i =. - p
Arthnr \. McGech. Fred W. birmingham Ar'hur d.
49,, .+brr 7 Cumnock Samuel d. Parker, Ralph
T. Emerson and Jacob Wendell Ir' . .ro
Tho time-honored custom and exercises arounu "o
o,aesAay tree were a leading attraction. Az ~
o,,on, row NJ seats was filed Into the small space
oronnd the tree the seniors filed, dressed IN every
~ old costume The first thing on the
% u tho singing Of Che class ode. written by Sewst
va Az Rrackett Then came tEo long s no1
round of cheering for everything ana mS when The
nsce1 %.n a a called for by Chief Marshal CumnOSh
up to the time tina, the Wild strm nd enthusiasm lIr were
on Ine ", To al those gathered to the sight. Tho
After e exercises Tel the R1sao pSyng the e
o;bYs sincinc the dancing. promenadins anu p"''
tastincs' etc. lasted till a late hour