The Juniors and Freshmen attracted the most attention along the route; their costumes being by far the most effective.
For an hour after the parade a constant stream of heroics and cars flowed over Cambridge Bridge, bringing back the wearied torchlighters.
It was rumored that the entire Cambridge police force was to have met the brigade in the Port, if the students had marched out in a body.
The Police Squad, under Captain Whiteside, was one of the most successful hits of the parade, and performed invaluable duty in keeping order along the route.
The Drum Corps, under the unequalled direction of Major Winslow, covered itself with renown-and mud. Seriously, however, there were few other corps in the procession which performed so well.
The transparencies borne in the column were not so numerous as might have been hoped. Some of them were very good. One bore the legend, "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil," inscribed under portraits of Blaine, Cleveland and Butler. Another was dedicated to "Our Prohibition Candidate, C. J. W." Another announced that the average age of the Board of Overseers was "95 in the shade.