El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-20
CLOSING DAYS OF.
Old HARVARD
IN PROGRESS
Great Feasting and Fun for
the 800 Graduates and
Lower Classmen.

Boston. Mass, June 20.-The senior
class of Harvard Is now engaged in
the melancholy occupation of swapping
photographs. Thursday. class day.
will break upon them; week later
commencement. and then the class Of
1911 will pour itself upon a thirsty
world. This year 500 men wiz be grad
uated from the different departments
Of the institution.
For Thursdays class day functions,
Lothrop Wilmington of Honolulu, has
been voted the highest honors-first
marshal. Wilmington is one Of the
greatest athletes who ever went to
Harvard. Captain of the football team
which played Yale to a tie last season,
he is the idol Of the college.
The second marshal IS Reginald C.
] Foster of Charles River village, cham
pion Splinter and captain of the track
team, who was also voted the handsom-
est man.
Herbert Jacques. jr., of Brookline, is
third marshal He is a champion long
distance runner.
The chairman of the class day COM
managed the track team and had charge
OF the intercollegiate championship
track meet
All are athletes.
Busy Week.
Glass day will find the participants
| in it's functions almost worn out from
| the strenuous previous events of senior
week. which began Sunday, when the
| seniors marched to Appleton chapel
after the time honored custom to hear
| the baccalaureate sermon delivered by
president Lowell Monday and yester-
| day were comparatively quiet days, but
! today's senior spread and tonight's se-
Nor dance, lasting as usual until 8
! o'clock in the morning put the seniors
back into their strenuous pace.
First thing In the morning are the
! exercises in Sanders theater for the
| seniors, to which. as a general rule,
/ only the mothers of the graduating
men can obtain admittance At this
] time the class sings the class song.
! the class poet, II. T. Pulsifer of Bos-
| ton, reads his product, and the orator.
Charles s. Collier of Kinderhook. n. Y,
makes his Grafton which usually deals
form of a yelled prophecy. The exer-
cises at this time are not long and are
held only because of the ancient Gus
J tom that they should be held
The Big Celebration.
Until the afternoon, the seniors then
have little layoff The gates to the
yard" are opened at 2 o'clock and,
| from that moment, the yard" is a
scene Of the greatest festivity. Long
| lines of japanese lanterns lighted with
electric lights lend the yard a PEE
culiar1y festive appearance. especially
| with the many-colored frocks and hats
| of the gentler sex. As soon as the
gate open, spreads of different indi-
viduals begin in different rooms in the
| yard" dormitories and last until the
| time comes for the classes to march to
the stadium for the exercises there.
The Ivy orator opens with his comic
| speech, which is the real feature Of the
| stadium exercises. The orator this year
| Is Alan Gregg of Colorado Springs. he
! having receiv I'd the highest number OF
| votes as the funny man of the class
He was very prominent in his class
and won his fame as a funmaker as
president of the Harvard Lampoon, the
| comic sheet of the university
On With the Dance.
Following his grafton the glee club
sings and then the class colors of the
| seniors are passed on to the freshman
class This concludes the stadium ex-
ercises and the next thing on the pro-
gram is attending the dances In Mem
| orial hall and the gymnasium in the
| evening.
The Yale baseball game. played on
Friday, comes after class day for the
first time in the history of the contest
The next and last function for the
seniors is commencement day, next
Wednesday. The only exercises for the
seniors are those in Sanders theater
when they received their degrees and
later on they attend the regular Alum
nj association meeting. which this year
will be held in the quadrangle behind
| Sever hall and thanked on either side
by Robinson and Emerson halls