WEST POINT, N.Y., 1 reference.
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, Williamsburg, Va., 3 references.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Mass., 43 references.
YALE COLLEGE, New Haven, Conn., 264 references.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[01] Hon. Levi Woodbury, whose subject was “Progress.”
[02] Vide Aristophanes, Aves.
[03] Alcestis of Euripides.
[04] See BRICK MILL.
[05] At Harvard College, sixty-eight Commencements
were held in
the
old parish church which “occupied a portion of
the
space
between Dane Hall and the old Presidential House.”
The
period embraced was from 1758 to 1834. There was
no
Commencement
in 1764, on account of the small-pox; nor
from
1775 to 1781, seven years, on account of the
Revolutionary
war. The first Commencement in the new
meeting-house
was held in 1834. In 1835, there was rain at
Commencement,
for the first time in thirty-five years.
[06] The graduating class usually waited on the
table at dinner
on
Commencement Day.
[07] Rev. John Willard, S.T.D., of Stafford, Conn.,
a graduate
of
the class of 1751.
[08] “Men, some to pleasure, some to business,
take;
But
every woman is at heart a rake.”
[09] Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D.
[10] The Rev. Dr. Simeon Howard, senior clergyman
of the
Corporation,
presided at the public exercises and
announced
the degrees.
[11] See under THESIS and MASTER’S QUESTION.
[12] The old way of spelling the word SOPHOMORE, q.v.
[13] Speaking of Bachelors who are reading for
fellowships,
Bristed
says, they “wear black gowns with two strings
hanging
loose in front.”—Five Years in
an Eng. Univ.,
Ed.
2d, p. 20.
[14] Bristed speaks of the “blue and silver
gown” of Trinity
Fellow-Commoners.—Five
Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d,
p.
34.
[15] “A gold-tufted cap at Cambridge designates
a Johnian or
Small-College
Fellow-Commoner.”—Ibid., p.
136.
[16] “The picture is not complete without
the ‘men,’ all in
their
academicals, as it is Sunday. The blue gown of
Trinity
has not exclusive possession of its own walks:
various
others are to be discerned, the Pembroke looped at
the
sleeve, the Christ’s and Catherine curiously
crimped
in
front, and the Johnian with its unmistakable
‘Crackling.’”—Bristed’s
Five Years in an Eng. Univ.,
Ed.
2d, p. 73.