At present the Navy Club is organized after the parts for the last Senior Exhibition have been assigned.  It is composed of three classes of persons; namely, the true NAVY, which consists of those who have never had parts; the MARINES, those who have had a major or second part in the Senior year, but no minor or first part in the Junior; and the HORSE-MARINES, those who have had a minor or first part in the Junior year, but have subsequently fallen off, so as not to get a major or second part in the Senior.  Of the Navy officers, the Lord High Admiral is usually he who has been sent from College the greatest number of times; the Vice-Admiral is the poorest scholar in the class; the Rear-Admiral the laziest fellow in the class; the Commodore, one addicted to boating; the Captain, a jolly blade; the Lieutenant and Midshipman, fellows of the same description; the Chaplain, the most profane; the Surgeon, a dabbler in surgery, or in medicine, or anything else; the Ensign, the tallest member of the class; the Boatswain, one most inclined to obscenity; the Drum Major, the most aristocratic, and his assistants, fellows of the same character.  These constitute the Band.  Such are the general rules of choice, but they are not always followed.  The remainder of the class who have had no parts and are not officers of the Navy Club are members, under the name of Privates.  On the morning when the parts for Commencement are assigned, the members who receive appointments resign the stations which they have held in the Navy Club.  This resignation takes place immediately after the parts have been read to the class.  The door-way of the middle entry of Holworthy Hall is the place usually chosen for this affecting scene.  The performance is carried on in the mock-oratorical style, a person concealed under a white sheet being placed behind the speaker to make the gestures for him.  The names of those members who, having received Commencement appointments, have refused to resign their trusts in the Navy Club, are then read by the Lord High Admiral, and by his authority they are expelled from the society.  This closes the exercises of the Club.

The following entertaining account of the last procession, in 1846, has been furnished by a graduate of that year:—­

“The class had nearly all assembled, and the procession, which extended through the rooms of the Natural History Society, began to move.  The principal officers, as also the whole band, were dressed in full uniform.  The Rear-Admiral brought up the rear, as was fitting.  He was borne in a sort of triumphal car, composed of something like a couch, elevated upon wheels, and drawn by a white horse.  On this his excellency, dressed in uniform, and enveloped in his cloak, reclined at full length.  One of the Marines played the part of driver.  Behind the car walked a colored man, with a most fantastic head-dress, whose duty it was to carry his Honor the