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Preliminary plans for the week of Harvard's 295th Commencement have been announced, the arrangements being that the exercises will start on Sunday, June 15 with a Baccalaureate Service in Appleton Chapel at 4 o'clock. At this time the Baccalaureate Sermon will be delivered by President Lowell, who will be assisted in the service by Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Episcopal Theological School.
At 11.30 o'clock on Monday morning the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will hold its annual meeting. The literary exercises in Sanders Theatre, to which the public is invited, will be preceeded by a business meeting to be held in Emerson Hall at 10 o'clock. At the Sanders Theatre exercises, the oration will be given by J. H. Beale '82, Royall Professor of Law, and the poet will be Professor Odell Shepard of Trinity College; the President of the Society, Judge W. C. Wait '82, will be the presiding officer. A dinner will be served to the Society at one o'clock in the Union. On Monday evening at 9 o'clock the Senior Spread and Dance will be held in Lowell House.
Tuesday is Class Day, which will begin with the Senior Class Chapel Service in Appleton Chapel at 9 o'clock. At 11 o'clock the Sanders Theatre Exercises will be held. Dean Sperry will lead the class in prayer, after which there will be the Class Oration, given by Paul Brooks '31, the Class Ode by E. L. Belisle '31, and the Class Poem by T. G. Upton '31. R. G. Edwards '31 is the Class Chorister.
The tree oration, open to Seniors only, will be held sometime in the afternoon of Class Day, but as yet no selection has been made of the Tree Orator. While the Tree Oration is being held the Alumni will form for the march to the Stadium, where the Ivy Oration will be delivered by R. S. Ogden '31. Other parts in the Stadium program include singing by the University Glee Club, presentation of the Class Banner to the Class of 1934, the singing of "Fair Harvard", and the Confetti Battle. In the evening there will be dancing in Memorial Hall from 8 until 11 o'clock, and at 9 o'clock there will be another concert by the Glee Club on the steps of Widener.
Commencement Day will take place on Thursday, with the Commencement procession to form at 9.45 o'clock. At 10 o'clock the exercises will begin in Sever Quadrangle, or, in case of rain, in Sanders Theatre. Three Commencement parts have just been announced: M. V. Anastos ocC of Woodcliffe-on-Undson New Jersey, will deliver a part in Latin, while R. G. Luckey '31 of Vinton, lowa, and H. C. Roso 31, of Columbus. Ohio, have been chosen to deliver English Commencement parts. Degrees will then be conferred in course and honorary.
Following the Commencement exercises the Alumni Spread will be held in the Yard from 12 until 1.30 o'clock, after which the Alumni will form in procession for the Alumni Exercises, to be held in the Sever Quadrangle at 2 o'clock, C. A. Coolldge '81, president of the Alumni Association, will preside. Commencement will close on Friday. June 19, with the usual Yale boat races at New London, Connection. The Freshman eights will row at 10 o'clock in the morning, followed by the Jevvee crews at 10.30 o'clock. The University eights will match strokes at 8.05 o'clock in the evening
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