At an early hour yesterday morning throngs of graduates began to assemble in and about the college yard. The morning air was clear and bracing. A cloudless sky and a dazzling sun lent beauty and life to the busy scenes which were being enacted in our college world. Many a hand-shaking was there and many a joyful smile of recognition 'as the graduates assembled at their various posts.

The main nave and the steps of Gore Hall were the gathering places of the official guests, the members of the faculty and the veteran alumni of 1821 to 1849.

The later graduates of 1850-1871 met on the south-east side of Sever, and Harvard's latest nurslings from 1880 - 1886, were to be found on the driveway from Gore Hall to Harvard street.

The literary exercises in Sanders Theatre:-

ORDER OF THE PROCESSION TO SANDERS THEATRE.

Band.

The Chief Marshal and Aids.

The President of the Association of the Alumni.

The Orator and the Poet of the Day.

The President and Fellows of Harvard College.

The Honorable and Reverend the Overseers.

The Governor of the Commonwealth and the President of the United States.

The Governor's Aids.

The Members of the President's Suite.

The United States Senators from Massachusetts.