The sun., 1910-02-27
An Old commencement Programme.

f-fA 0Aa NVhilAhCuCCAnOutN NNOEEdau1c'
A scrap Of printed paper that some
how escaped the mischances Of hum
dred years TIL It reached the Harvard
Bulletin, which reprints it, awakes a
good many memories. 1t is the COM
rnencernent programme Of the class of
1904, and brings TO mind at once little
old gentleman. leaning bent on his stick,
who led the procession Of the alumni,
iirst as the eldest graduate present and
later as the oldest living graduate, till
latest steLligsr Of 1904, he was gath
esed 20 bis classmates, back in the con-.
suiship Of PLAYcUs. That means the
dawning years Of the Eliot rule, the days
when Tutor WILLIAM EvKRErT, not yet
doctor or professor, reused the fresh
man TO some comprehension that HoR-
ACE and the Romans were alive, and
under the gambrel roof of the Holmes
hQyse poured out for them his hospi-
t66i6s cherry and made prohibition howl.
Then for seven years 1904 remained the
earliest class that was left, with three
S,ifviyors at first, and MIR. JOSEPH HEAD,
coAhine to Cambridge rom Plymouth
way toshead the column. reused the
ambition in the youngsters who cheered
him TO stand in his place some day.
Like the classes whose exercises Mr..
HEAD attended in his last years, the
class Of 1904 could boast that il was
the largest that ever graduated; sixty
cne carried away their diplomas on that
sAhg0st ~. The summer heat did not
interfere with study then, nor did ath-
ktics. Though Harvard University in
Z Cambridge. Commonwealth of Massa-
chnsetts. Is at the head OF the pro-
eramme, it was a pretty minute Har-
yard chat young HEAD and his class
mates knew. Holden Chapel, Hollis and
Harvard, without its belfry and with no
JONES 70 ring the bell, across the path
Massachusetts,; the old Stoughton was
kone and the new one was not begun;
away by itself the presidents house.
But the elrns were there and the free
sweep Of meadows on all sides, with no
thought Of Imprisonment behind walls
Of brick and wrought iron, and surely,
~ Hollis, the vanished college pump.
And the class Of 1909 fled through the
yard with all the pride and self-con-
ciousness Of it's predecessors and sue
cessors 70 the First Church, we fancy,
across the road from the presidents
house.
His -Exoellency the Governor of the
Commonwealth was there to meet
them, CILER STRONG, Federalist, and
with him the Sheriffs OF Suffolk and of
Middlesex; the Boston Lancers in their
red coats were still a beautiful dream
fhRt the future was TO bring, but the
stout men Of FaneIiil Market must have
been there on horseback under some
name Was President JOSEPH WILLARD
present? He died in the following Sep
tenber, after a reign of twenty-threc
years The presidents chair was there
at any rate Parson TURELL's legacy, as
yet unsung by the still unborn autocrat,
whose future godfather, OLIVER WEN
DELL, sat among the Fellows; the FIVE
professors and the three tutors were
thtIe 100. and In the audience, in poke
ponnets and gowns such as we have
lately looked upon, the rirgines for
reosiesin9 that the salutatorian was
about to invoke.
II was a solid feast that the class
offered to its friends, fifteen numbers
I'd which thlrty-two men were to take
asrtr and a masters oration besides.
Erpectdtur ordtio an IirSua latina by
THOMAS AsP1NwALL and the show
begins. Young AsPiNwALL steps for
-rsra with no sense Of tire arm hs IN