The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-07-03
CLASS LAY AT HARVARD cULLEGE.

but something may yet remain unsald
which was the privilege of an eye wit
ness to observe.
The weather was all that one could
desire, clear and cool. The rain of the
day before-while postponing the Har-
ward y ale ball game-had freshened
the lawns and washed the trees and ivy
coverings of the buildings and the sun
shone on most invitingly clean camp
us
The day was filled with many events.
TIE feature of Glass Day exercises in
the morning in Sanders theatre was
the Grafton of Roscoe Conkling Bruce,
the first colored man to be honored
with class part at Harvard He is
the son of a colored man of Indian
apoiis. who rose to be I. S. senator.
He had his first great opportunity to
speak for the people of his Own race
and he took it magnticently. Even
the men from the south, with the deep
est of race prejudices, We're forced to
applaud He believes in his own race.
and goes to work foSthem with Booker
7. Washington.
l could not. if | would, describe the
postponed ball game which took place
in the early afternoon i'll Soldiers
Field. The absence of the 1000 who at
tended gave opportunity for visitors to
enjoy the music of three bands, to
wander over the grounds, and to visit
: the buildings. notably Memo rial Hall.
! which has dined so many thousands,
and Sanders theatre, representing the
j legacy of Charles Sanders. connected
with the college as linancier IL 1902.
, The result of the game was anticipated
before it was known by the quiet re
turn of the disappointed throng; dis
! appointed because of the loss of its
first game to Yale and which wendell its
way back to the college ward to pre-
pare for the exercises around the
stutue of John Harvard, the founder of
the college In short time the class
yells and the cheering began to rever
berate in the yard. The classes of 'o3, '04
and 90. three thousand in number the
seniors and past graduates numbering
one thousand more, lined up four
abreast and marched to the statue Here
the cheering was continued. and Pres.
Roosevelt, the professors III turn and
the ladies. were given ovations OF
cheers. Showers of confetti and
streamers of ribbon rolls, furnished for
the occasion and thrown III all direc-
tons with a background of beautiful
dresses. made the enclosure a picture
never to he forgotten by those who
witnessed it for the first time,
1t the last was tie scramble among
the seniors fol- the flowers with which
the statue was banked. One bouquet
reposing in John Harvard lap was
captured by the big man of the class
Singing closed the exercises, and PEG
Pile hurried to their belated spreads
The writer was fortunate in being in
yited to a spread III typical students
room. Across one corner a sign, 1.-TWO
Little agrants@ told us Who occupied
the room. y chatting dish suggested
spreads ON more moderate scale and
less moderate hours. Cards, business and
otherwise, edged the mirror and sugges-
tive pictures adorned the walls. Notices,
captured in some midnight raid, read
y
formed us that a meeting is in pro
gress up stairs. Please be as quiet as
possible AS up stairs was occu
pied by more students they might gain
or suffer according to the will of those
below y combination of class colors
on the wall made prominent mention
of ale. their worthy foe.
On our return to the campus the
yard was gliu mering, blazing fairy
! land with thousands of japanese Ian
terms, with red fire in one place and
green fire in another, and the white
| light of the ''nineteen hundred and
two" emblem, across Holworthy Hall
Here the writer became a part of the
largest crowd she has ever known, the
number being estimated to be $4,000.
| Three bands swelled the murmur of
voices, and away off in the distance the
! Glee Club was singing The dining
room and gymnasium were crowded
with dancers, and the remaining mass
of humanity promenaded or sat on the
grass as did the multitude in holy writ.
| 1t was the most extensive best man
aged and most magnificent class day
ever celebrated in Cambridge In the
midst of the splendor and wealth and
great opportunities of Harvard college
of today it is interesting to turn to its
early history, when it knew the priya-
tions of poverty and internal conflicts,
when it is recorded that ''the remote
little town of Scarborough, Maine,
gave two pounds, nine shillings and six
pence towards its support.
1t is hard to say when Harvard Col
lege began to be. Founded by the
General Court in 1886, and located at
| Cambridge then called NeWtOWn in