Yesterday, the opening day of the celebration of Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, proved a great success, and Nature seemed to harmonize perfectly in rendering everything beautiful and attractive. The college appeared to be living a new life, for graduates, old and young, came pouring in from every quarter. Undergraduate and alumnus vied with each other in showing their appreciation of the great event, and relieved from their daily routine, spent the greater part of the day in rest and quiet. The gayest-colored bunting displayed from the different buildings and houses outside the college shows that all Cambridge takes the keenest interest in the welfare of the university.

Yesterday was, however, especially set aside for the members of the Law School, and the oration delivered to them by the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Sanders Theatre, fulfilled in every way all that even the most exacting could expect of one of Harvard's most distinguished sons. The dinner tendered the graduates of the Law School by its present members brought back many pleasant reminiscences of the past, when all were once plunged in the mysteries of Blacks' one and Kent. Yet the first day, pleasant as it was, has but paved the way for the still more imposing ceremonies to come.