Class Day Committee book of Harvard College
By: ex dono Class Day Commitee '79, J. Templeton Coolidge, Charles S. Hanks; Herman R. LeRoy
Published: 1870
Language: eng
Subjects: Students; Harvard University; Class Day Tree (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.)
Other titles: C.D.C.B. :
Description: Contains entries describing Class Day, 1870-1888, compiled by the Class Day Committee for each year (excepting 1877, when no committee was appointed and the faculty took it into their own hands). Each entry includes information on music, batons, flowers, decorations, tickets, police, ushers, the yard, the fence, the tree and lists of expenses. Some entries also include hand-drawn plans of the yard. Programs, tickets (including forgeries) as well as some newsclippings are pasted in by year.
Notes: Manuscript. Bound in red leather, covers and spine stamped in gold, with marbled endpapers. Also includes (broken) original key for lock.

"This book has been compiled from the written instructions of several years past concerning Class Day. It is only to be seen by the Class Day Committee as they have the entire charge of every thing pertaining to the day . . . the object of the book is to give to the Class Day Committee the benefit of the experience of former classes. Therefore it is desirable that to the facts stated, each Class Day Committee shall add any suggestions that may be of benefit to the following classes . . . in this way it is hoped that all future Class Day Committees may make the best and most satisfactory arrangements for Class Day" -- preface.