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HARVARD UNIVERSITY CALENDAR.

March, 1883. - No. 78.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

JUNE 17. - SUNDAY.Appleton Chapel, 4 P. M. Baccalaureate sermon to the Senior Class. Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D.

19. - TUESDAY.College Faculty. Meeting at University 5, 3.30 P. M.

Scientific Faculty. Meeting at University 5, 7.30 P. M.

21. - THURSDAY.Academic Council. Stated meeting at University 5, 8 P. M.

22. - FRIDAY.Class Day. Oration by Arthur Richmond Marsh, Poem by Henry Grafton Chapman, Ode by Augustus Mendon Lord, and Ivy Oration by Charles Hall Grandgent. Sanders Theatre, 11.30 A. M.

At 9.30 A. M. the senior class will assemble in front of Holworthy Hall and march to the chapel, where prayer will be offered by the Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D.

At 10.30 Sanders Theatre will be open to those having tickets.

At 11.15 the senior class will assemble in front of Holworthy and march to the theatre, where the exercises will occupy nearly two hours.

From 2 to 5 P. M. there will be music in the yard.

From 3 to 5 o'clock there will be dancing in Memorial Hall.

At 5 o'clock, Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel, and the entrance to the seats around the tree will be opened to those having tickets.

At 5.15 the class will reassemble in front of Holworthy, march through the yard and cheer the college buildings, then to the tree, where the usual exercises and the singing of the class song will take place.

During the exercises at the tree the college yard will be fenced off and cleared, and during the remainder of the afternoon and evening a ticket will be required of every gentleman entering the portion of the yard enclosed by the fence.

In order to facilitate the clearing of the yard, seniors are requested to see that their guests who are not at the tree shall be in the parlors.

From 7.30 to 11.30 there will be illuminations and music in the portions of the yard fenced off.

From 8 to 11 there will be dancing in Memorial Hall and the gymnasium.

At 8.30 and during other portions of the evening there will be singing by the Glee Club in front of Holworthy.

All seniors and students are obliged to have tickets to the different exercises except where they go by classes.

Seniors are requested to appear in dress suits, white cravats and silk hats, both on class day and commencement day.

Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress at the exercises around the tree.

Each ticket for Memorial Hall will be good for both afternoon and evening. The entrance will be at the south door, the exit from the north door. The same tickets will be good for the Hemenway Gymnasium after 6 o'clock P. M., and there will be no admission without tickets. There will be dancing in the gymnasium from 8 to 11 P. M. The entrance will be at the main entrance of the building, the exit at the side door facing the common.

The exits from the yard will be between Holworthy and Stoughton. University and Thayer, Massachusetts and Harvard, Grays and Matthews.

The entrances to the portion of the yard fenced off will be between Massachusetts and Harvard, Holworthy and Thayer, Grays and Weld.

25. MONDAY.Medical School. Examinations for admission.

26. TUESDAY.Divinity School. Meeting of the alumni at 2 P. M. in Divinity Hall Chapel. At 4 P. M., at the same place, address by Rev. James De Normandie. Subject: The New Movement in Theology. Collation in Massachusetts Hall, 5.30 P. M.

27. WEDNESDAY (Commence.Overseers. Meeting at Memorial Hall, 9 A. M.

Election of Overseers. Massachusetts Hall, 10 A. M. till 4 P. M.

Commencement Exercises. Sanders Theatre, 10.30 A. M.

The President and Fellows, Overseers, Faculties and other officers will meet the invited guests and Alumni of the University in Massachusetts Hall, at 9.45 A. M., and will proceed to Sanders Theatre. The theatre will be open to ticket-holders at 9.25, and seats will be reserved till 9.55.

Association of the Alumni. Business meeting. Harvard Hall, 1 P. M.

Commencement Dinner. Memorial Hall, 2.30 P. M.

The Alumni and invited guests will assemble in Massachusetts Hall, at 2 P. M., and march in procession to Memorial Hall. Tickets for the dinner will be for sale at Massachusetts Hall from 10 till 2 o'clock. Price, one dollar. Graduates of 1832 and of earlier classes are entitled to tickets without payment.

28. THURSDAY.Examinations for admission to Harvard College, the Law School and to the Lawrence Scientific School.

Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard Chapter. Business meeting. Boylston Hall, west lecture room, 10 A. M. Oration by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Poem by Robert Grant. Sanders Theatre, 12 M.

The public is cordially invited to attend the exercises in Sanders Theatre.

At the conclusion of the exercises the society will march to Massachusetts Hall, where dinner will be served. Tickets at Sever's University Book Store.

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