Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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crew. He rowed on the 'Varsity crew in 1901. He is an Honor- ary member of the Institute, is a member of the Memorial Society, and of the Hasty Pudding Club. OI-IN DUDLEY CLARK prepared at Hopkinson's School. For two years he was catcher on the school baseball team, and he played end on the football team. He was end on his Freshman eleven, catcher on his Freshman baseball team, and has been a substitute catcher and first base on the University nine. In his Sophomore year he played in the Yale game, and for the last two years he has been substitute end on the University eleven. He is a member of the Cerele Francais Club. He was captain of the Senior class baseball team. He is a member of the Institute, of the Dickey, and the Hasty Pudding Club. AI.'l'lCR Cl..-XRKSON, Chairman of the Senior Spread Committee, prepared at the Cambridge High and Latin School, playing on the school nine for Five years, during three of which he was captain. ln his Freshman year he was captain and pitcher of his class nine. which defeated the Yale Freslnnen twice. He also pitched for the 1903 class team, which won the in- terclass championship in 1900. He is a member of the Civil Engi- neering Club, and is an Honorary member of both the Institute of 1770 and of the Hasty Pudding Club. He is captain of the 'Var- sity baseball nine. ALTER SMITH SUGDEN prepared at Phillips Andover Academy. He played center on the victorious Fresh- man team, and for two years was substitute center on the University team. Last fall he played center in the Yale game. He is President of the Harvard Andover Club, and a member of the institute and of the Hasty Pudding Club. I TUART llLAlKlE prepared at Andover, and is a member of the Harvard Andover Club. He played right tackle on the successful class teams in 1901 and 1902. He has taken an active interest in class debating. In 1901 he rowed number 5 in the winning XYeld Intermediate Eight-oar crew in the Metropolitan Amateur Rowing Association Regatta. He is one of theidirectors of the Harvard Dining flssoeiation, and a member of the Memorial Society. '

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ITI-I the passing of college years has developed the time-honored custom of the Senior class taking some more or less formal leave of their friends, in- structors, and college surroundings. This custom has given rise at different colleges to distinctive fea- tures connected with the closing exercises. To every Princeton man the thoughts of Class Day ceremonies and festivities center in the old Cannon. Everyone who has attended the Class Day exer- cises at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, will think of Class Day with pleasant memories of the delightful Quadrangle Reception on the evening of Class Day. The link that binds us most closely to the Class Days of the past is the Class Day Tree. XrVith its massive branches towering ma- jestically above Holden Chapel, the Class Day Tree stands a silent witness to many a fierce conflict of the classes of the past. Genera- tion after generation have engaged in the Class Day festivities clustering about this Tree. The old Tree still stands behind Har- vard Hall, but except for the secluded half-hour or so spent around it by the Seniors, while making their farewell round of the Yard, the Class Day Tree has been shorn of the honor of being the center of the more spectacular features of Class Day, and the car- nival of today around the Statue has succeeded the flower rush Jn and charge of yesterday about the Tree. The beginnings of Class Day are shrouded in the mists of by- gone days. Here and there we find a scattered record of some History of Class Day simple farewell by the departing class to the college authorities. A round two centuries have come and gone, and the plain adieu of the closing seventeenth century has become the elaborate Class Day of nineteen hundred and three, opening with the Senior Spread the evening before Class Day, and closing with the dances in Me- morial Hall and the Gymnasium. The more solemn and formal ceremonies now occur on Com- mencement Day. Class Day has become essentially a day of social entertainment and enjoyment. Before the middle of the eighteenth century Class Day was unknown. Soon after this time, however, we find records of separate Class Day exercises being held. The beginnings of Class Day very naturally developed in connection with the established custom of Commencement Day. To an ar- ticle in the Harvard Book is added a foot-note of some inter- est: The social exigencies of the day are exemplified in an entry made by Tutor Flint in his diary on the eve of Commence- ment, 1724: 'Had of Mr. Morris 2 corkscrews at 4 d. a piece.' This, if it represent an average, was certainly a handsome tutorial provision. Mr. Morris, it should be remembered, beside teaching Hebrew in the College, kept a small shop fsuch as used to be called 'variety stores'j on what is now known as Winthrop Square. Commencement in those early days of Harvard is thus described by a witness in 1687: Mr. Mather, President, Pray'd forenoon and afternoon. Mr. Ratcliff sat in the pulpit by the Governour's direction. Mr. Mather crav'd a Blessing and return'd Thanks in the Hallf' The same writer made the following entryvin his diary for july 2, 1690: Came to Cambridge by Water in the Barge, wherein the Governour Iliradstreetl, Major Generall fWinthrop1, Capt. Blackwell, Mr. Addington, Allen, Willard and others: Had